What is Firebase?
PART III: RELEASE & MONITOR
Our Firebase deep dive continues this month. If you missed the first couple articles, check out the ‘What is Firebase?’ overview article and our deep dive into ‘Firebase Build products’, all on the official Flamelink Blog on Medium
Here’s a quick recap before we dive into the next suite of Firebase products: ‘Release & Monitor’.
Firebase is an app development platform that provides the necessary tools to help you build and run successful Mobile or Web Apps. It’s owned and backed by Google and is already in use by millions of businesses and their engineering & development teams around the world — from startups to global enterprises.
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Let’s get into Firebase ‘Release & Monitor’ products.
Firebase’s ‘Release & Monitor’ products help Developer and Engineering teams all over the world release their apps with confidence and Monitor their apps’ performance and stability with the ability to pinpoint, prioritize, and fix stability and performance issues early on by simplifying the whole testing, triaging, and troubleshooting process.
You’ll also be able to improve app quality in a shorter amount of time with a lot less effort by rolling out features and carefully monitoring adoption.
Firebase ‘Release & Monitoring’ products include:
- Crashlytics
- Google Analytics
- Remote Config
- Performance Monitoring
- Test Lab
- App Distribution
Crashlytics:
Firebase Crashlytics is a real-time crash reporting tool that helps you track, prioritize, and fix stability issues that erode app quality, and resolve bugs quickly. Crashlytics helps you track the most important crashes, like the ones that affect the most users, and provides detailed information about the crash. With Crashlytics, you can also track the number of crashes and the number of users affected by crashes, as well as the stability of your app over time. You can also use Crashlytics to get notified when a new crash occurs and to see how long it took for your team to fix a crash.
Crashlytics also easily integrates into your Android, iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS apps — check out the official Firebase Crashlytics documentation to learn more.
Google Analytics:
Google Analytics for Firebase provides insights on a range of key and custom events about app usage, user engagement, in-app purchases and more. It’s designed to help developers and businesses understand the behaviour of their users and make informed decisions about their apps. Google Analytics for Firebase is integrated with other Firebase products, so you can easily access all of your app data in one place.
Or check out the official Google Analytics documentation.
Remote Config:
Remote Config is a feature within Firebase that allows developers to remotely change the behaviour and appearance of their app without requiring an app update. This can be useful for quickly updating app features, A/B testing, and personalizing the user experience.
With Remote Config, developers can dynamically turn features on and off, personalize by audience segments, and run experiments — directly within the Firebase Console. All without setting up any complex infrastructure, releasing a new version, and mitigates the hassle of going through the app store review process.
Or check out the official Remote Config documentation.
Performance Monitoring:
Firebase Performance Monitoring is a tool that helps developers monitor and optimize the performance of their mobile and web applications. It provides real-time data on app performance, including load times, crash rates, and user interactions. With this information, developers can identify and fix issues that may be affecting their app’s performance. Firebase Performance Monitoring also offers alerts and notifications for when performance thresholds are exceeded, allowing developers to quickly address any issues.
Or check out the official Performance Monitoring documentation.
Test Lab:
Firebase Test Lab is a cloud-based testing service that allows developers to test their mobile app’s functionality and compatibility across a wide variety of physical and virtual devices for both Android and iOS platforms.
With Test Lab, developers can run automated tests and receive instant results, ensuring that their app is ready for release.
Additionally, Test Lab allows developers to test their app’s performance under different network conditions, helping to ensure that it performs well in a variety of environments.
Or check out the official Test lab documentation.
App Distribution:
Firebase App Distribution is a tool that allows developers to easily distribute beta versions of their mobile apps to testers. It allows for quick and easy distribution of new builds, as well as the ability to gather feedback and analytics from testers. With App Distribution, developers can ensure that their apps are tested and ready for release before they are made available to the general public. It is a valuable resource for any developer looking to streamline the testing and distribution process of their mobile app.
Check out the official App Distribution documentation.
And that’s it for the Firebase Release & Monitor products (at least for now). Theses powerful tools are invaluable and will help you and your team build and launch better apps.
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