Google today updated Firebase, its service for helping developers build apps for Android, iOS, and the web. Firebase has gained an In-App Messaging feature, new Crashlytics integrations, Remote Config ...

If your app is going to be a success, then you need to hold the user’s interest over time, and notifications are an important way to keep your audience engaged. By presenting the user with a timely, ...

Google is announcing today that it’s introducing web support for Firebase Cloud Messaging, a service that lets developers send push notifications for their applications to end users’ devices. This ...

Cody has been writing with Android Police for ten years. While best known for the hundreds of APK Teardowns and breaking news on many of Google’s new products and services, he also covers deeper ...

There are many different ways that you can use location data in your Android apps. Previously, we’ve seen how you can display the user’s location on a Google Map; reverse geocode coordinates into a ...

In some ways, we saw two different Googles on display at the company's I/O developer conference in Mountain View, which opened yesterday. Michael is CIO at Ziff Brothers Investments, a private ...

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At its core, Google I/O has always been a developer-focused event. Here are the biggest announcements that Google made during the I/O developer keynote and beyond. This post will be steadily updated ...

Firebase is a cloud-based messaging service that makes it easier for developers to send push notifications to users from their applications. It was acquired by Google in 2014 and could already send ...

Google is pretty well known for building a fast and (usually) reliable infrastructure that can stand up to just about anything short a certain Nexus launch. This is why it came as no surprise when the ...