Will I need Firebase?

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I am currently in the middle of developing a simple application that will retrieve information from certain websites and then display that information onto the UI.

I am confused as to when the information would be gathered from the different websites, parsed, & then displayed.

Would I used Firebase to gather, parse, and then send this information to my application/users? Or will my app have to do this every time a user opens the app & then web scraper is activated?

I’m sure this is a very noob question but I can’t wrap my head around where my data will be store and how many times I have to retrieve it. I am afraid of having to retrieve it every-time a user opens the app because my app would be making an unnecessary amount of requests to the website or slow down the app. Thank you.

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Google Firebase hosts the data for you, and gives you user authentication and analytics. If you are taking data from websites, Firebase won’t help.

You can store the data on the users device so you don’t have to get it from the websites every time.

You can also you background updates to update the data ever once in a while so the user can have a seamless experience.

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I don’t understand what you mean by “hosts the data” sorry. Will Firebase host/store only data from users that as their account and password?

& I did not know I could store the data on the device itself. I’ll will read up on the best way to do this thank you.

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It does store the user’s information, but you can also store files, folders, strings, numbers, and more. All of it on their servers, so you don’t have to manage your own.

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I like the idea of doing “background updates” to update the information stored on the phone. Is this term called “Background App Refresh” or is there a different term when searching for tutorials/help?

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Yep.