While there were quite a few exciting consumer announcements during Google’s annual conference, Google I/O has always been a developer-focused event. Here’s everything developers will want to know from Google I/O 2024.

• Google AI
• Firebase

Firebase demos upcoming suite of AI tools for app developers

Kyle BradshawNov 8 2023 - 10:00 am PT

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During its first-ever “Demo Day,” Google’s Firebase team has shared four ways developers can easily harness the power of AI for their own apps.

While Google I/O has served as a venue for some of the company’s biggest debuts over the years, the conference has always had its roots in developer news.

This post will be steadily updated over the duration of the Google I/O 2023 developer keynote with the latest news from all of the company’s various avenues of development, as well as news from the “What’s New” sessions afterward. We’re expecting news from Android, Flutter, Jetpack, and Firebase, as well as many AI-related announcements.

At Firebase Summit 2022, Google expanded Firebase Hosting to support many new web frameworks, opened a way to make custom “Extensions,” and much more.

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.

During the annual Firebase Summit, Google has announced more easy-to-use extensions and better support for macOS and Flutter apps, while Firebase Personalization enters beta.

During the Google I/O 2021 developer keynote, Firebase — Google’s suite of development tools that make it all too easy to integrate apps with the cloud — shared a variety of announcements, including a new App Check security system, a revamp of the Remote Config tool, and more.

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Firebase Summit brings new tools for data analysis, performance insights, more

Kyle BradshawOct 27 2020 - 9:30 am PT

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Today, Google hosted its annual Firebase Summit event, where the company announced new tools to make things like data analysis and performance monitoring easier for app developers.

• Open source
• Firebase

Google’s Android and iOS app crash analysis tool Firebase Crashlytics is now open source

Kyle BradshawJan 9 2020 - 11:48 am PT

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For years now, long beforeit became a part of Google’s Firebase, Crashlytics has offered Android and iOS developers a way to obtain insights about if and why their app is crashing on their user’s devices. As has been the trend for Firebase libraries recently, Google has made Crashlytics for Android and iOS into an open source project.

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One of the key features of Chrome OS is its built-in search capabilities (Googleis a search engine company, after all), which can show you web results in addition to matching apps. Now this Chrome OS search box is getting two improvements to make Android apps more dynamic thanks to Firebase App Indexing and make finding your installed Linux apps easier.

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Firebase to add premium customer support, improve ML Kit facial detection, more [Video]

Kyle BradshawOct 29 2018 - 1:00 am PT

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Firebase, Google’s cloud-based app development suite, is celebrating its annual Firebase Summit developer event in Prague by announcing of a slew of new features coming to the platform, including facial detection improvements and new premium support.

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• Twitter Fabric

Fabric shutting down next year as Crashlytics moves to Firebase

Kyle BradshawSep 14 2018 - 1:00 pm PT

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Early last year, it was announced thatGoogle had acquired Fabric mobile developer tools, to complement the Firebase app development framework they had acquired in 2014. At that time, there was no action required by developers to continue using the service. Today, Fabric has released an official migration guide and roadmap including a shutdown estimate.

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Firebase gains In-App Messaging, new Crashlytics integrations, more

Kyle BradshawAug 16 2018 - 9:00 am PT

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Firebase, Google’s cloud-powered app development platform, is receiving a major update including a fresh look and interesting new features for user interaction and crash management.

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During the I/O 2018 Keynote, Dave Burke unveiled ML Kit, Google’s new tool to let mobile developers experiment with machine learning.

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• Apps & Updates
• Firebase

Google made a sample app to demo Firebase, and it’s a lot like Instagram

Abner LiApr 5 2018 - 3:40 pm PT

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Firebase is Google’s web and mobile app development platform offering services like hosting, syncing, push notifications, and crash reporting. To demo its capabilities, the company recently created a sample app that is essentially a fully functioning copy of Instagram.

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At day two of Cloud Next ’17, Google’s Firebase app development suite was announced to have closer integration with theGoogle Cloud Platform. Cloud Functions for Firebase offers a complete backend serverless solution, while Cloud Storage for Firebase improves the app storage experience.

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Launched in 2014 from an acquisition the year before, Twitter’s set of Fabric mobile developer tools is being sold off to Google. Theacquisition will see the team join Google’s Developer Products Group, specifically the Firebase team.

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At yesterday’s I/O keynote, Firebase received the most enthusiastic applaud from the crowd of developers. Purchased two years ago, Firebase is a cloud backend service that does the heavy lifting of managing an app’s data. Firebase is now acomplete solution for building and maintaining an app on multiple platforms.

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Today, Googleannounced that it’s acquiring Firebase, to help advance its growing cloud platform. The San Francisco-based startup specializes in backend services and creating products that help developers build applications. Software developed with Firebase can be synced across mobile and web apps in real-time.

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