User authentication can be a powerful addition to your Android app. Once you can identify the individual people who are using your app, you can customize your app’s content, potentially delivering an ...

Google today announced that it is buying San Francisco database stratus Firebase. Firebase, which will become part of the broader Google Cloud Platform, is an interesting approach towards mobile ...

Google LLC today is adding more features to its Firebase mobile and web application development framework aimed at making developers’ lives easier and get more of them to use the platform. Firebase is ...

Learn how to maintain user/data relationships with Firebase users and data from the Realtime database. I provide three different methods for commonly encountered scenarios. Here's what we know about ...

It appears that nearly 24,000 apps on the Google Play store may have sprung data leaks. Unlike the Play Store malware and scams we often cover that actively steal or distribute user information, these ...

Firebase is one of those startups with an almost crazily big vision — it wants to simplify the development of powerful, real-time apps, to the point where, as co-founder James Tamplin put it, it’s ...

Google is tracking users even if they've opted out, claim a new lawsuit against the company that's currently seeking class-action status. The same law firm that accused Google that it's tracking ...

The Tea app data breach has grown into an even larger leak, with the stolen data now shared on hacking forums and a second database discovered that allegedly contains 1.1 million private messages ...

Smartphone users are fighting Google's bid to scrap a jury verdict requiring the company to pay $425 million for allegedly gathering analytics data from people who had attempted to block data ...