It’s that time of year again!

Not Halloween, it’s #FirebaseSummit which is a whole day event focused on Firebase and contains announcements around the features that the team has been working on after Google I/O.

Happening at Prague, Czech Republic, this year’s summit was no different as we had tons of new features and announcements which will make it easier for developers to build and scale their apps/websites.

Also, Firebase now has over 1.5 million active monthly users, which is a huuge deal! 🎊

So without any further delay, here’s what the Firebase Team has been 🔥(cooking) in the past year!

Enterprise support for Firebase via Google Cloud

Firebase now also provides enterprise support to its paid Google Cloud customers.

The features you get are :

Chat, email and phone support

24x7 availability for critical issues

Technical account management

If you have a paid google cloud plan, you can get started with it once it’s available!

Learn more : https://cloud.google.com/support/

New locations for Cloud Firestore

Frankfurt now has a dedicated server for Cloud Firestore with more locations in Europe and Asia coming soon!

BigQuery Exports for more services

More Firebase Services allow BigQuery export.

What this means is, you can now export your data for Crashlytics, FCM, Predictions, A/B testing and more to BigQuery for more complicated analysis.

Previously this was available only for Analytics.

Open Source all the things!!!

More SDK components are being Open Sourced, starting with In-App Messaging display that is available today.

https://github.com/firebase/firebase-android-sdk

You can now customize the look and feel of the popup that’s displayed when your user received an In-App Message.

React native developers should also look into : https://rnfirebase.io/ for easy to use quick starters on Firebase and React Native.

Firebase predictions is out of beta now

Long running campaign with FCM

FCM now allows you to run long running campaigns that can be customized to trigger when the user performs a custom action.

So for example, you can run a long running campaign that tracks to see if a user didn’t complete the app’s on-boarding process; in which scenario you can show them a Notification asking to complete the process.

Firebase Test lab for iOS is out of beta now!

Firebase performance monitoring

Performance monitoring now allows you to trace sessions with low performance.

This in turn will allow you to closely monitor into what exactly happened before and after the performance hiccup.

You now also have the ability to close and mute an issue raised by Firebase Performance Monitoring if you have deployed a fix for it in the current version of the app.

Crashlytics

Crashlytics will soon allow you to share a beta release of your app to your testers directly via email instead of having to deploy it on to Google’s Beta channel.

Crashlytics along with Fabric will also be closing down later in 2019 and the team has a neat dashboard for folks who want to migrate their app to Firebase (alongwith your existing data)

MLKit

The Face detection API now allows for facial contour detection, as in it projects more than 100 points on your face allowing you to create more precise face masks if that’s your use case.

Firestore

Firestore and Realtime Database now supports a local emulator to develop and test your database rules.

Firebase Management API

This new set of APIs allow you to to individually manage and customize the firebase console for existing or new users in your team!

Building and Excluding Audience from Analytics

Firebase Analytics now allows you to make a custom audience based on the actions performed by the users and the later on you ca target this audience via FCM.

Moreover you can also export the audience data to BigQuery for more complex analysis!

Well, that all!

Lots of new announcements and features which ought to keep us busy till Google I/O 19 ;)

I’ll see you later! 👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼

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