A simple solution for implementing Firebase Authentication with Google, using Jetpack Compose on Android. — I have written a few months ago, an article regarding how to anonymously authenticate users with Firebase, but that’s a solution that you should take into consideration only when you want to provide your users the capability to try your app. It’s a pretty simple solution to implement and requires…

A simple solution for optimizing Firebase Realtime Database calls using data denormalization. — When it comes to displaying a list of products from a Firebase Realtime Database node that looks like this:

A simple solution to anonymously authenticate users with Firebase. — Most applications need to know the identity of their users. This means that when we create a new project, we often need to think about a solution that can handle authentication. When it comes to implementing such a mechanism, Firebase Authentication sounds like the best solution that we can take…

A simple solution for creating massively scalable Android applications with real-time updates. — When we start creating a new project, we usually try to find the best practices that can be implemented in order to have a reliable, scalable, and maintainable application. What does scalable mean? When it comes to structuring a project, it means that we have to create a design that can be practical and…

A simple solution for implementing pagination in Cloud Firestore using Jetpack Compose and Paging v3 library for Android. — When we are dealing with a large amount of data, it’s already known that we cannot read all that data at once. Why? Because it will take an enormous amount of time only to download it. If the data doesn’t fit into the memory, an OutOfMemoryError might also be thrown…

A simple solution for reducing the costs in Firestore through database refactoring. — As we already know, Cloud Firestore is a scalable, cloud-hosted, NoSQL, real-time database from Firebase and Google Cloud, and it’s is optimized to store large collections of small documents. When using Firestore, the mechanism for billing is related to the number of reads, writes, and deletes we perform. …

Two simple solutions to update a single element in an array of custom objects in Cloud Firestore. — Even from the beginning, the array is a supported data type in Firestore. It’s very useful for storing data in String format or even custom objects, as long as the size of the document is less than 1 MiB (1,048,576 bytes). For larger amounts of data, a sub-collection is more…

A simple solution to get content across different sub-collections — Cloud Firestore is a flexible, scalable database for mobile, web, and server development from Firebase and Google Cloud. It consists of collections and documents. When working with such a database, there often are cases in which we would like to query multiple collections at once. But unfortunately, this is not…

Cloud Firestore is a flexible, scalable database for mobile, web, and server development from Firebase and Google Cloud. — In a regular SQL database, counting the number of records in a table is by far one of the simplest operations you can perform. …