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Firebase Auth. – Google Sign In

Through user testing and survey results, Google won as the preferred sign-in provider. Users prefer using providers like Google, FB, Twitter, etc. for signing in because it is quicker to just use an existing account rather than having to go…

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Chatbots #2 – DialogFlow & Chatfuel

I started working on the chatbot and have decided against the Amazon tools. I’m currently torn between Dialogflow and Chatfuel. For the booking process, a menu/buttons chatbot is more than enough, but for the recommendations or the Q&A, one with…

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Facebook SDK – Facebook Developers

There were two ways to let users sign-in using their Facebook accounts. The first one is through Facebook directly, or through Firebase’s authentication service. Since, I was already using Firebase for the database, and am planning to use it for…

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Firebase – Booking & Wait-list

For this app, it is essential to have it connected to a database, whether it’s for sending requests, notifications, storing data or for user authentication (signing-up and signing-in using different providers). Moreover, hypothetically for now, once the business has access…

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AWS Online Summit

Last week, Amazon had a free online series of virtual events and tutorials to learn about AWS and the services it provides. The events were in different levels depending on what you’re looking to achieve and depending on what “field”…

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Calendar for Booking

For the booking process, I created a calendar that users can choose days from and which the business will be able to disable days that are booked. A calendar is a lot easier to use and more organised than let’s…

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Google APIs – Google Reviews

So I had started developing my app on Unity, and began looking into APIs to enhance certain functionalities in the app. The first thing I wanted to do was embed a static Google map as well as Google reviews in…

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