If you're a mobile development rookie, your first stop should be "
What
to consider when developing mobile apps," in which Laurence Moroney, Google
staff developer advocate, surfaces some of the gotchas of developing for mobile
devices such as poor connectivity and offline devices, access control and
battery life.
Then, march on over to "
Zero
to App: Live coding an app with Firebase and GCP," which will be a very cool
live demo. Watch in awe as Googlers Mike McDonald, Jen Tong and Frank van
Puffelen do simultaneous live coding of an app across both iOS and Android.
You'll leave with an appreciation of how easy it is to code with Firebase, and
how easy it is to scale with GCP.
For mobile devs that just want to focus on delivering a great UX, "serverless"
development helps remove a big set of concerns from their plate. If that
describes you, go see "
Google
Cloud Functions and Firebase," with Firebase team members Thomas Bouldin,
software engineer and Brendan Lim, product manager, who will show you how to
extend Firebase backend services with Google Cloud Functions to make the next
generation of mobile and web apps.
Once you've built that awesome mobile app, you'll want analytics to understand
how people use it. But building analytics infrastructure can be painful, and the
same goes for log ingestion pipelines, and managing a data warehouse. We've got
you covered. In "
Gaining
deeper insights from Firebase Analytics with Google BigQuery," Google
developer advocates Todd Kerpelman and Arun Venkatesan will show you how to use
Firebase Analytics and augment it with BigQuery and data visualization tools
like Data Studio.
Of course, that's just the tip of the iceberg. For the full story, check out the
schedule for a full
listing of the keynotes, bootcamps and over 200 breakout sessions. Hope to see
you there!
