Firebase started out as a database backend service for real-time apps, but today it’s taking a step in another direction. The company is expanding its platform with a hosting service for web apps.

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 ...

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 ...

Google announced today that it is acquiring cloud hosted database company Firebase. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Google will continue to offer Firebase's services as part of its Google ...

Mobile and web developers have a new database available to them that's designed to offer high performance plus offline access. It's called Google Cloud Firestore, and it offers a fully managed system ...

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It's been reported that nearly 24,000 applications on the Google Play Store have suffered data leaks and these applications are being compromised by accident due to Google Firebase being badly ...