agneev / firebase-batch-demo

Best alternative for Parse? Firebase for back-end + Batch for push notifications. Here is a fully-working demo.

Firebase + Batch

This is Firebase+Batch demo app for iOS and Android.

It shows how to authentify an user, and make Firebase and Batch use a shared identifier so that you can store your data in Firebase and use Batch to push them, very much like Parse used to do.

Requirements:

• A Firebase account & app
• Batch account with one app per platform
• If you want to use Google+ Authentication, you will need to enable Google+ in your Google Developers Console project (https://console.developers.google.com).
  • Then put it in your Firebase App configuration

Android requirements:

• A GCM Sender ID and auth key
• Android Studio 1.5
• For Google+ Auth:
  • A generated google-services.json that you'll put in Android/Firebase/app/

iOS Requirements:

• Push certificates from your Apple Provisioning Profile portal
• Xcode 6
• Cocoapods
  • Pods are preinstalled
• For Google+ Auth:
  • A generated GoogleService-Info.plist that you'll put in iOS/Firebase/

How to use

Android

• Open the project in Android Studio
• Put your API Key, GCM Sender ID and Firebase URL in Config.java
• (optional) Put the google-services.json file in Android/Firebase/app/ for Google+ Login
• Run it on a real device or a Google API simulator :)

iOS

• Open the xcworkspace in Xcode
• Put your API Key and Firebase URL in Consts.swift
• Provision it correctly: Change the app ID to your own, and make sure it has push notification configured
• (optional) Put the GoogleService-Info.plist file in iOS/Firebase/ for Google+ Login
• Run it on a real device, since push isn't supported in the simulator

More info on how to setup Batch's dashboard here: https://dashboard.batch.com/doc