Firebase: Totally Not Parse All Over Again (Unless It Is)

With Facebook shutting down Parse, everybody knows to never again depend on a third party for their backend solution, right? Sure, and after you spend six months trying to write your own syncing service, how's that working? In 2016, Google has added a ton of features to Firebase, their popular backend-as-a-service solution. Firebase's primary offering is a realtime database in the cloud that syncs changes to and from multiple concurrent users, and their Swift-friendly iOS SDK makes it ideal for mobile use. In this session, you'll learn how to set up a Firebase backend and build an iOS app around it.

Chris Adamson is the co-author of iPhone 8 SDK Development (https://pragprog.com/book/adios2/ios-8-sdk-development) (Pragmatic Programmers) and Learning Core Audio (http://is.gd/UEDYe4) (Addison-Wesley Professional). He is a software engineer at Rev.com (https://www.rev.com/), working remotely from Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he also writes the [Time code]; blog (http://www.subfurther.com/blog) at http://www.subfurther.com/blog . Over the years, he has managed to own thirteen and a half Macs.