Google Developer Group Bergen (GDG)

In collaboration with NorApps and Apparat we are proud to present Firebase workshop with Googlers from the Firebase team. The session will be lead by: Susan Goldblatt Susan Goldblatt is a Software Engineer at Google. She works on Firebase as a front end developer. Before Google, she wrote a computer science curriculum for high schoolers and worked at a startup in NYC. Lauren Long Lauren is a Tech Lead on the Firebase Team at Google San Francisco. Prior to joining Google, Lauren co-founded the storage-on-demand startup Boxit, and was the first Product Manager at wearable tech company Nymi. Lauren has spoken internationally about entrepreneurship and technology. In her spare time, she enjoys swing dancing, rock climbing, and writing. Hiranya Jayathilaka Hiranya is a tech lead on the Firebase team, leading the development of Firebase Admin SDKs. Prior to Google, Hiranya worked at WSO2, where he developed open source enterprise integration technologies. He's a committer for several Apache projects including Apache Synapse and Axis2. Hiranya earned a bachelor’s in engineering from University of Moratuwa. He also received a Ph.D. in computer science from UC Santa Barbara. Hiranya’s dissertation focuses on the governance of cloud applications via policies and programming language techniques. He has published original research in numerous peer-reviewed journals and conferences specialized in cloud. They will take us through building an app using Firebase, and how it takes care of data storage, synchronization, file storage, authentication, and other backend functionality so that your time can be spent polishing user interactions. In this codelab you will build a Firestore-backend restaurant recommendation android app. You will learn how to: - Read and write data to Firestore from a android app - Listen to changes in Firestore data in realtime - Use Firebase Authentication and security rules to secure Firestore data - Write complex Firestore queries - Integrate with cloud Functions Agenda 17:00 - Doors open 17:15 - Food and swag 17:45 - Word from our sponsors 18:00 - Presentation and codelab starts 19:30 - QA 19:45 - Kahoot with prizes 20:00 - Beer time! If you have any food allergies or intolerances, please notify us in advance.