Firebase is a development platform known originally for its realtime database that’s still at its core a multi-node, key-value database optimized for synchronizing data, often between user ...

If the tested apps are representative, an estimated 0.83 per cent of all Android apps on Google Play leak sensitive data through Firebase, says Comparitech. That would work out to roughly 24,000 apps.

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.

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 ...