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firebase / firebase-android-sdk

firebase-android-sdk

Firebase Android SDK

6Distinct people
6Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
2.6KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

Firebase Android SDK

GitHub

Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

GitHub seems somewhat intentionally not built for discovery. Which is fine, but I'll give some examples anyway: Here's the organization I manage: https://github.com/firebase…

habosa used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-09-06 21:03:54 UTC to 2025-02-05 16:53:03 UTC.

0122018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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habosa·Jun 17, 2020Recommendation phrase
GitHub seems somewhat intentionally not built for discovery. Which is fine, but I'll give some examples anyway: Here's the organization I manage: https://github.com/firebase There is so little customization allowed on that page. It's very hard for me to tell a curious developer what's new or exciting unless I want to constantly adjust pinned repos. Now visit this page on a laptop monitor: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-android-sdk Notice that you're immediately presented with the folder structure and the README is "below the fold". So the developer's own words about the project are hidden unless you scroll for them. A lot of newbies get really thrown by this, they start clicking blindly into the code without knowing there are instructions below. All that said: I love GitHub. I spent 50%+ of my day on GitHub and manage 100+ rep
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In GitHub isn't fun anymore
The backend is almost entirely custom, though many common low-level open-source components are used pervasively. For example, for components written in C++ we use Abseil, Google Test, etc. The SDKs are all open source and make use of other open source components: * Android: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-android-sdk/tree/master/firebase-firestore * iOS: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-ios-sdk/tree/master/Firestore * Web: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-js-sdk/tree/master/packages/firestore For example, the iOS SDK uses LevelDB for local key-value storage and gRPC for communication with the backend.
In Google Cloud Firestore NoSQL database is in GA

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