Re: Why do so many people confuse Google's Firebase (cloud API) with Google Services Google Firebase App Indexing (search results)?

Andrew, 2024-06-23 19:41:

Arno Welzel wrote on Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:41:10 +0200 :
 

The question I asked is a very difficult question to answer.

>
No, it's quite simple:
>
"Firebase" is a mostly cloud based platform with a number of services
provided by Google: messaging, storage, usage analytics, indexing and so on.
>
"Firebase App Indexing" is one single feature of that and not a separate
product.

 
Thanks again for hazarding a guess as I know how rough Usenet is to people
who make guesses - rightly or wrongly so - where I'm only trying to nail
down what the difference is between what Google calls
a. Firebase App Indexing (on-device search data + uploaded statistics)
b. Firebase (where Firebase is only the back end to Google Cloud)

What do you mean with "hazarding a guess"?

Just *read* the documentation instead of "guessing" things:

<https://firebase.google.com/?hl=en>
<https://firebase.google.com/docs/app-indexing?hl=en>

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Given my Samsung Galaxy A32-5G baseband is unrootable, I'm forced to use
some version of Android so I'm stuck using Google products de jure.

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No, you can just buy a different device.

 
While I'm rather familiar with the concept of telling people if they don't
like living in the United States, they should just go back to where they
came from, that's an historic Germanic attitude that I don't harbor,
despite the fact I was born to a German-born father & mother in the USA.

Oh my... :-(

Did anyone forced you to purchase a Samsung Galaxy A32-5G and does not
allow you to get any other device ever?

I would rather simply try to understand the differences between these three
sets of API's from Google that developers can link into their apps.

Then learn how to develop apps, really.

1. GSF => APIs for apps to link into Google Backup, Play Store Services, 
          Contacts Sync, and Account Management (plus location services
          I think, which is why so many apps now require "precise location"
          even though they have no need for it - because Google made the
          option for location services w/o Wi-Fi removed from the API!)

Correct - GSF, "Google Services Framework" gives apps access to Google
Play Services and some services

2. GMS => APIs for Gmail, Chrome, Google+, Google Maps & Youtube.

Correct - GMS, "Google Mobile Services" are mostly all the services
Google provides even without Android.

3. Firebase => APIs for Cloud stuff + completely separate search stuff

Correct - but "Firebase" also contains "Firebase App Indexing" and
"Firebase App Indexing" is *not* a separate product besides Firebase.

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Arno Welzel
https://arnowelzel.de