What is Firebase?

• Why do we need it?
• What are alternatives to it?
• Why choose it over other options?

Let's take a look at the Firebase console

• Firebase is much more than just a data store

How to add Firebase to an Android app

• 2 different ways
• what configuration steps are required

Possible Use Cases for Firebase?

• Chat client
• Authentication
• File/Asset retrieval
• Database 

Firebase as a database

• how data is stored
• how are relations handled
• scaling and optimizations

Let's take a look at a CRUD app