A Review on Firebase (Backend as A Service) for Mobile Application Development

Abstract

Abstract: If we see current scenario mobile users are rapidly increasing in a very large scale. Better performance and good visuals are needed while developing any mobile applications. In the current mobile market, there are various operating system which are supported by many mobile devices. . Since these platforms have different SDKs and tools for developing mobile applications, SDK tools will include a range of things, including libraries, documentation, code samples, processes, and different guides that developers can use and integrate/combined into their own apps. Cross platform development offers the flexibility for building applications using universal language like Javascript which can then be exported to numerous smartphone platforms. Firebase is a platform for mobile and web application with tools and infrastructure which allows developers to build high quality applications. Firebase consists of features that developers can use together to meet their needs. Earlier Firebase was used as a real-time database, which provides developers an API to sync and store data across various clients. Over time, it’s product has been expanded to become a full suite for an app development. Day by day new platform approaches are evolved. Firebase is also powerful API i.e Application Program Interface to sync and store data in realtime helping to build realtime apps for the web. It also takes care of most of the backend concerns and is dubbed a Backend as a Service (BaaS) and also pushes state to your application utilizing web sockets. Keywords: Android, iOS, Cross Platform Development, Flutter, Dart, Widgets, Firebase.