Next, you need to connect this project to your application, and add support for both Firebase Realtime Database and Firebase Authentication. Create a new Android project and then open the Firebase ...

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.

The new Firestore database complements the existing Firebase Realtime Database and indeed, there’s quite a bit of overlap between these two services. As Firebase co-founder James Tamplin told me ...