Google updates its Firebase Backend-as-a-Service to make app development faster

“We recognize that developers may use twenty to even forty APIs in their apps — and while extensions have been working really well for developers to quickly deploy these solutions, we’ve heard from them that they would like more customizations to be able to take this baseline deployment and really make it their own,” Ma said.Image Credits: GoogleImage Credits: GoogleThe team is also now adding third-party extensions for Snap, to allow users to log in with Snap, for example, as well as new Stream extensions to help developers implement chat in their apps and a new RevenueCat extension for managing in-app subscriptions.On the security side, Firebase is now integrated with the new Play Integrity API, which allows developers to trust that a given Android app that is communicating with its backend hasn’t been manipulated (something that often happens with games).For Apple developers, the Firebase team is improving its support for Apple’s Swift language.