Here at Firebase, we want to make it easier for you
to create successful mobile and web apps.
And while you’ve been working hard to build apps
that help people stay connected and adapt to new circumstances,
we’ve been working hard to make Firebase better for all of you.
Just last month, for instance, we made improvements to the command-line tool
so you can now manage Firebase hosting directly from the command line,
and we made it faster to deploy Cloud Functions.
This year at I/O 2021, we’ve announced even more features
to improve app development and help you delight your users.
We’ve built a brand-new emulator for Cloud Storage for Firebase,
which is part of the Firebase Emulator Suite.
So now, you can develop and test Cloud Functions
that interact with Firestore, Cloud Storage, and more,
entirely on your local machine for faster and safer development.
We’ve improved App Distribution,
our product for sending early builds of your app to trusted testers.
This year, we’ve added support for Android App Bundles
so you can test the actual binaries customers installed on their devices.
To help make your apps more secure, we’ve added a new feature called App Check.
App Check protects access to your services
by verifying that incoming traffic is coming from your app.
Web developers will be pleased to hear
that we’ve made the Firebase web SDK smaller to help you improve load times
and reduce the download burden for your users.
We’ve also added some exciting new extensions that make it easier for you
to integrate with services from Google and popular third parties,
like the Analyze Toxicity extension to detect toxic language,
the search with Algolia extension for better database searching
the managed marketing with Mailchimp extension
to make it easier to send personalized emails,
and the sent messages with Mailchimp extension
to send messages to your users through a wide range of messaging channels.
We’ve made some updates to Crashlytics,
like the ability to search and filter your crashes by custom keys,
making it easier to understand and fix even the trickiest crashes.
We also launched major improvements to the Crashlytics NDK and Unity Support
to help all you game developers keep your game stable and your players happy.
And we’ve increased the performance of Performance Monitoring itself,
allowing you to see your app’s performance data in real-time.
Huh.
And for you Remote Config users,
we’ve improved the flow for publishing new configurations
and optimized the Remote Config console
so you can now see relevant information at first glance.
Oh, and one more thing, for all you Apple developers out there.
We've officially launched support for Swift Package Manager.
It’s never been easier to add Firebase to your project
on iOS and Apple's other platforms.
We've also started to add Swift UI support
to products like Analytics and In-App Messaging
with more to come over the next few months, but we're not done.
Now that Google I/O 2021 is over,
we’ll be hard at work adding more features you’ve been asking for,
making Firebase even more delightful to use and helping you build your apps even faster.
Preferably, after our kids stop crashing our meetings.
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Now, get out there and build something great.