This document provides an introduction to Firebase, including what it is, why it is useful for developers, and some of its key features. Firebase is a backend as a service developed by Google that provides tools for adding realtime databases, machine learning, authentication, messaging, hosting, storage and more to apps. It aims to reduce the need for app developers to build complex backend functionality themselves. Some benefits mentioned are that Firebase has a no SQL database called Firestore, handles traffic and scaling, supports authentication through Google accounts, and allows cross-platform messaging.

1. Intro to Flutter
Anish Natekar
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2. Timeline
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Building an app
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5 sessions

3. What is FireBase?

4. FireBase
About
Google Firebase Docs =>
https://firebase.google.com/
Google Firebase YouTube
Playlist =>
https://youtube.com/playlist
?list=PLl-K7zZEsYLmOF_07I
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6. Why Firebase?
Benefits
Firebase is a complete
backend solution for
your application and
has many useful tools
including firestore,
analytics, testing, etc. It
also has the best
documentation which
makes it more
appealing for devs.

7. https://firebase.google.com/products/realti
me-database
Firebase has it own real time no sql type
database called firestore.
No sql databases store different
documents where each document will have
it’s own pairs of keys and values
(dictionary).
Google takes care of the traffic and scaling
of the database so that devs can focus on
their app.

8. https://firebase.google.com/products/ml
We can run various machine learning
models which might be inbuilt or are
customly built using tensorflow. This allows
us to create apps which are adaptive and
smarter.

9. https://firebase.google.com/products/ml
You must have seen app which have a
sign up option. Sometimes you can
directly sign up via a gmail account or
facebook account making the process
much more easier.
Good security in authentication is
important for apps which have an
account for each user so using google’s
authentication apis we don’t need to
code a complicated auth program and
we know that it will be secure.

10. https://firebase.google.com/products/ml
Messaging is a common feature in many
apps. Firebase supports messaging
between any platform.

11. Some more examples
● https://firebase.google.com/products/functions
● https://firebase.google.com/products/hosting
● https://firebase.google.com/products/storage
● https://firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

12. So we looked at what is firebase and what features it has. Now it is time to
see how do we implement/link our firebase project with our flutter project
so that we can use it’s features.
First we need to visit the firebase website and register via our gmail
account. After registering you have to go to firebase console where you
can setup your new firebase project.
Once you complete the setup process you have to