We've provided a number of different ways for you to get started building your app with the Firebase platform -- everything from quickstarts for many of our individual products, to codelabs, to some Getting Started screencasts on our YouTube channel.
But what happens after you've gotten started with a feature, and are looking to build something more substantial? How do you learn how to avoid race conditions while writing to the Firebase Database? Or lazily create an infinite feed? Do you wish there were an open-sourced Firebase playbook app that you could use to see real-life use cases in motion? Or an app that demonstrates the use of multiple Firebase products together, so you can follow the same practices in your own app?
For all you developers who want to see an app built for a real life scenario, we've created an open sourced narrative app called FriendlyPix. FriendlyPix uses some of the most popular Firebase SDKs, such as Analytics, Cloud Messaging, Cloud Functions, Authentication (with FirebaseUI), Realtime Database, Storage, Remote Config, Invites, and AdMob.
FriendlyPix highlights some of the best practices when using Firebase, such as:
We look forward to seeing you use these best practices in your app, or use FriendlyPix as a starting point for your app.
To get started with FriendlyPix, you can read the design document or check out the apps (Android, iOS, and Web) and associated Cloud Functions on GitHub.
The web version is already hosted at https://friendly-pix.com for you to try out, and we are planning to release FriendlyPix on other platforms for you try as well.
We'll be updating the app and adding further SDKs in the coming weeks, so keep an eye on this blog or watch our Github repos to stay updated.
You can ask FriendlyPix related questions on StackOverflow with the firebase and friendlypix tags. Issue trackers are hosted on Github in their respective platforms repos: Web, iOS, and Android. We'd love for you to contribute to the project, although before doing so please read our Contributor guide.
