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In 2014, Firebase launched two products: Firebase Hosting [6] and Firebase Authentication. [7] This positioned the company as a mobile backend as a service. [citation needed] In October 2014, Firebase was acquired by Google. [8] A year later, in October 2015, Google acquired Divshot, an HTML5 web-hosting platform, to merge it with the Firebase ...
Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit created by Google. It can be used to develop cross platform applications from a single codebase for the web , [ 4 ] Fuchsia , Android , iOS , Linux , macOS , and Windows . [ 5 ]
Authentication and authorization. Some BaaS offer authentication and authorization services that allow developers to easily manage app users. [ 15 ] This includes user sign-up, login, password reset, social media login integration through OAuth , user group and permission management etc.
For example, the client data would be accessed by calling a "list_clients()" function instead of making an SQL query directly against the client table on the database. This allows the underlying database to be replaced without making any change to the other tiers.
OAuth is an authorization protocol, rather than an authentication protocol. Using OAuth on its own as an authentication method may be referred to as pseudo-authentication. [26] The following diagrams highlight the differences between using OpenID (specifically designed as an authentication protocol) and OAuth for authorization.
Federated identity is related to single sign-on (SSO), in which a user's single authentication ticket, or token, is trusted across multiple IT systems or even organizations. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] SSO is a subset of federated identity management, as it relates only to authentication and is understood on the level of technical interoperability, and it ...
OpenSocial is a public specification that outlines a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) for web applications.Initially designed for social network applications, it was developed collaboratively by Google, MySpace and other social networks.
In the context of an HTTP transaction, basic access authentication is a method for an HTTP user agent (e.g. a web browser) to provide a user name and password when making a request. In basic HTTP authentication, a request contains a header field in the form of Authorization: Basic <credentials> , where <credentials> is the Base64 encoding of ID ...