We Launched Our iOS SDK

[Andrew Lee]

Firebasers -

Over the past several months, many of you have helped us beta test our iOS SDK. Today, we’re declaring that SDK complete and announcing it to the world. You can see our blog post and screencast here.

This latest iteration of our iOS SDK includes full support for Queries and Transactions. It also includes an implementation of Firebase Simple Login for iOS. If you've been waiting for a solid version before building your iOS app, now's the time to give it a try.

If you want to see the iOS SDK in action, check out SF Live Bus in the app store. It uses the new SDK to show a real-time view of the location of every bus in San Francisco. You can check out the code for this app on Github.

In addition, we simplified our pricing based on community feedback. You'll now pay monthly for each Firebase you use, rather than pay a per-account minimum. We'd love any more feedback you have! We're trying to get this right before charging anyone.

Thank you to everyone who has provided feedback for our iOS SDK along the way!

-Andrew

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Andrew Lee

Founder, Firebase

http://twitter.com/startupandrew

[Vikrum Nijjar]

Aaron,

   The behavior is currently identical to the web-client: once an app has connected to Firebase, the client will cache data locally and be able to access data where there is an outstanding "observe" block even after a network connection is lost. Local events will continue to fire and trigger blocks even when disconnected. However, this data is not persisted to disk, the "offline mode" will only work while the app is still in resident (including suspended to the background by the user)—so, if the user kills the app, phone battery completely drains, etc—that data won't get saved. Full offline support backed by disk will be coming in the future. 

Vikrum

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Aaron Brethorst <aa...@brethorsting.com> wrote:

This is awesome! Can you say more about the offline support story for the iOS SDK? I don't see anything on the website about it.

thanks!

Aaron

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[Aaron Brethorst]

Thanks, much obliged for the detailed answer!

Sent from my iPhone

[Vikrum Nijjar]

Jonathan,

  Thanks for the email. It's definitely something that's on our roadmap which we're planning to roll out. Unfortunately, I can't say much about an ETA. Stay tuned!

Vikrum

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 7:06 AM, <dai...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Vikrum,

I was wondering what the status of having full offline support backed by disk was?

Thanks!

-Jonathan