Android Authority

Create a GPS tracking application with Firebase Realtime Database

There are many different ways that you can use location data in your Android apps. Previously, we’ve seen how you can display the user’s location on a Google Map; reverse geocode coordinates into a ...
Mashable

Thousands of Android and iOS apps are leaking sensitive data, says report

Millions of passwords, GPS locations, and financial records are sitting unprotected in plain sight — and yours could be one of them. Researchers at Appthority, a mobile security firm, scanned both ...
Android Police

Firebase is launching Cloud Firestore, a new document database featuring realtime sync, no-hassle scaling, and offline support

Cody has been writing with Android Police for ten years. While best known for the hundreds of APK Teardowns and breaking news on many of Google’s new products and services, he also covers deeper ...
Bleeping Computer

Thousands of Apps Leak Sensitive Data via Misconfigured Firebase Backends

Thousands of iOS and Android mobile applications are exposing over 113 GBs of data via over 2,271 misconfigured Firebase databases, according to a report released this week by mobile security firm ...
VentureBeat

Google updates Firebase with enterprise-grade support, ML Kit Face Contours, Management API, and more

Google today updated Firebase, its service for helping developers build apps for Android, iOS, and the web. Firebase has gained paid enterprise-grade support, ML Kit Face Contours, a Firebase ...
Android Police

Firebase announces major redesign of console with Crashlytics integration, A/B testing framework, Predictions engine, and more

Cody has been writing with Android Police for ten years. While best known for the hundreds of APK Teardowns and breaking news on many of Google’s new products and services, he also covers deeper ...