Welcome Firebase Authentication
Adam Dawes
Hi Identity Toolkit Community,
Today at Google I/O, Google announced the next version of Firebase: a suite of integrated products designed to help you develop your app, grow a user base and earn money. The GITKit team is excited to announce that Identity Toolkit has merged with Firebase to release. We’ve built many new features onto Identity Toolkit and going forward it will be called Firebase Authentication, available today.
The Identity Toolkit team has been working hard since last fall on the new integrated version with the Firebase team. Some of the new features include:
New SDKs for iOS, Android and Web
Our new SDKs feature a set of headless APIs that allow you to build your app’s UI with complete flexibility. And we have also completely re-designed the Identity Toolkit UI with enhancements like integration of Smart Lock for Passwords and much simpler customization. If you want to go beyond the built-in customization features, we are also releasing the iOS and Android code as open source to enable you to take advantage of all the prebuilt flows with whatever UX you believe is best for your app.Integrated email sending infrastructure
You no longer need to set up and manage email sending infrastructure to help your users that have lost their password. Firebase Auth now automatically sends these emails and you have the ability to customize the message that your users receive.User console
There will be a brand new console where you will not only be able to manage your auth configuration but also search, see and manage users (including password reset and account suspend and delete), and configure your password reset emails.Session management
On iOS and Android, users will only have to login once and their session will remain alive unless the user remotely kills it by changing their password on another device.Seamless integration with other Firebase features
The Firebase suite includes other backend services like the Firebase Realtime Database and Firebase Storage that integrate with Firebase Auth and allow you to control data access on a per-user basis. This integration allows you to build secure applications using a declarative authorization language instead of server-side code.
We encourage you to check out Firebase Authentication but we do not advise that you start updating your apps to the new libraries just yet. We still have a few additional changes to make to ensure Identity Toolkit customers don’t run into problems as well as deliver a migration guide to lead you through the process. Please expect an announcement before the end of Q2 2016 to explain how to begin moving to Firebase Authentication. If you are interested in migrating earlier, please let us know.
Please let us know if you have any general comments or questions on this list or technical questions on Stack Overflow.
Thanks,
Google Identity Toolkit Team
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Masashi Enya
2016年5月19日木曜日 6時43分46秒 UTC+9 Adam Dawes:
Adam Dawes
HiWe are now under developing a new web application using GIT and about to launch. I understand that we need to migrate it to FireBase Authentication after Q2.How long is current version of GIT usable? We are using APIs of GIT instead of using UI modules as our application is web based and need to make some customization on logics. We hope it will be available for a certain period of time as we need some time to consider the migration.
Best Regards,Masa
2016年5月19日木曜日 6時43分46秒 UTC+9 Adam Dawes:Hi Identity Toolkit Community,
Today at Google I/O, Google announced the next version of Firebase: a suite of integrated products designed to help you develop your app, grow a user base and earn money. The GITKit team is excited to announce that Identity Toolkit has merged with Firebase to release. We’ve built many new features onto Identity Toolkit and going forward it will be called Firebase Authentication, available today.
The Identity Toolkit team has been working hard since last fall on the new integrated version with the Firebase team. Some of the new features include:
New SDKs for iOS, Android and Web
Our new SDKs feature a set of headless APIs that allow you to build your app’s UI with complete flexibility. And we have also completely re-designed the Identity Toolkit UI with enhancements like integration of Smart Lock for Passwords and much simpler customization. If you want to go beyond the built-in customization features, we are also releasing the iOS and Android code as open source to enable you to take advantage of all the prebuilt flows with whatever UX you believe is best for your app.Integrated email sending infrastructure
You no longer need to set up and manage email sending infrastructure to help your users that have lost their password. Firebase Auth now automatically sends these emails and you have the ability to customize the message that your users receive.User console
There will be a brand new console where you will not only be able to manage your auth configuration but also search, see and manage users (including password reset and account suspend and delete), and configure your password reset emails.Session management
On iOS and Android, users will only have to login once and their session will remain alive unless the user remotely kills it by changing their password on another device.Seamless integration with other Firebase features
The Firebase suite includes other backend services like the Firebase Realtime Database and Firebase Storage that integrate with Firebase Auth and allow you to control data access on a per-user basis. This integration allows you to build secure applications using a declarative authorization language instead of server-side code.We encourage you to check out Firebase Authentication but we do not advise that you start updating your apps to the new libraries just yet. We still have a few additional changes to make to ensure Identity Toolkit customers don’t run into problems as well as deliver a migration guide to lead you through the process. Please expect an announcement before the end of Q2 2016 to explain how to begin moving to Firebase Authentication. If you are interested in migrating earlier, please let us know.
Please let us know if you have any general comments or questions on this list or technical questions on Stack Overflow.
Thanks,
Google Identity Toolkit Team
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Adam Dawes
Hi Adam,Is Google Identity Platform no longer a free service, after being branded as Firebase Authentication?
We are not interested in what Firebase offers, and were using Google Identity Toolkit as a free and reliable managed identity service.
-David
David Cohen
On Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at 10:43:46 PM UTC+1, Adam Dawes wrote:
David Cohen
On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 8:09:59 AM UTC+1, Adam Dawes wrote:
On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 10:39 AM, David Cohen <dcco...@gmail.com> wrote:Hi Adam,Is Google Identity Platform no longer a free service, after being branded as Firebase Authentication?Firebase Authentication is a part of the free set of Firebase services.
We are not interested in what Firebase offers, and were using Google Identity Toolkit as a free and reliable managed identity service.We very much want applications with their own back end server or web application to use Firebase Auth. If that's the impression you got from the Firebase docs, we need to make that clearer. We also need to put together better documentation on session management for web applications but these are very important use cases for us.We'd appreciate it if you'd take a closer look and let us know if there are things you'd like to see as a part of Firebase Auth.