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Chapter 19: Securing Data in Cloud Firestore
: In this chapter, you'll learn what 
are security rules in Cloud Firestore and how to add them to your database to 
make your data safe.
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Chapter 20: Cloud Storage
: In this last chapter, you'll learn how to store media 
files using another Firebase feature called Cloud Storage. You'll learn how to store 
an image to the cloud and how to get a URL to the image to display it in your app.
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Chapter 11: Firebase 
Overview
By Dean Djermanović
Creating a successful mobile app isn’t easy. Not only do developers need to focus on 
writing code and fixing bugs, they often need to manage a variety of tools and build 
complex infrastructures too. Factor in tight schedules and resource constraints, and 
you’ve got your work cut out!
Thankfully, though, Google understood the need for a simpler way to create high-
quality apps, and in 2014 they acquired 
Firebase
. More recently, Google announced 
that in October 2019, they will start to sunset their existing