In this tutorial, we are describing how you can link our premium React Native apps to your own Firebase backend account. We we’ll be covering both iOS and Android platforms, and a variety of Firebase services, such as Auth, Firestore, Storage and Cloud Messaging.

Don’t worry – everything is way simpler than it sounds. You actually need to do these quick steps:

• Create a Firebase Account and add 2 new apps to it (one for iOS, one for Android)
• Enable Firebase Auth, Firestore and Storage (it takes 5 clicks)
• Download two files (google-services.json and GoogleServices-Info.plist) from Firebase and place them in the app template folder

That’s it. It shouldn’t take you more than 5 minutes to complete all these steps.

We are going to take a look at each of these steps to describe them in details, in order to give you a better idea of what’s going on and how the app interacts with the Firebase backend.