This in-depth blog series offers a step-by-step guide for mobile development teams.

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Writing an API - a mobile developer story

This in-depth blog series offers a step-by-step guide for mobile development teams.

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In Depth

Trigger Firebase Cloud Functions

How do you trigger Firebase Cloud Functions when a file gets uploaded? We recently needed to take regularly updated text files and read them into a database. Here’s how we used Firebase to do it.

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Queued tasks on App Engine for Firebase

We’ve recently been exploring Google App Engine with Firebase. Here’s how we queued tasks between them.

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Using Google Cloud Endpoints

APIs need protecting - when we were recently using Google App Engine we explored Google Cloud Endpoints and utilised them to improve the security.

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Setting up Cloud SQL in Java

Are you setting up Cloud SQL within a Java project using Android Studio? Read on - and hopefully we can point you in the right direction!

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User Authentication for Cloud SQL

When using Cloud SQL for databasing on a project, we needed a solution to ensure the right people could access the right information.

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Android

Scaling on Google App Engine

On a recent mobile app project using Google Cloud Platform, we had issues with instances not scaling as expected. So we took a closer look to understand what was happening.

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Three tricks for working with Google App Engine

Using Google App Engine and looking for some useful tips? Then read on...

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