# Using googles Firebase API as a database for ignition

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-googles-firebase-api-as-a-database-for-ignition/60265>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** database\
**Created:** [June 1, 2022, 3:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-googles-firebase-api-as-a-database-for-ignition/60265 "2022-06-01T15:23:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Logan\_Nguyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Logan\_Nguyen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Logan_Nguyen)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 3:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-googles-firebase-api-as-a-database-for-ignition/60265/1 "2022-06-01T15:23:02Z")

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I’m developing a Flutter mobile app that will communicate with a database that is also connected to ignition. It will be much easier to use Firebase with the mobile app development, but ignition doesn’t appear to have the capability to communicate with Firebase. If anyone has experience with ignition/firebase communication I would greatly appreciate your input. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-googles-firebase-api-as-a-database-for-ignition/60265/2 "2022-06-01T15:24:29Z")

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You could probably interact with the [REST API](https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/rest/start) using `system.net.httpClient`.

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**Author:** ![Logan\_Nguyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Logan\_Nguyen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Logan_Nguyen)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-googles-firebase-api-as-a-database-for-ignition/60265/3 "2022-06-01T15:54:30Z")

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Thanks Paul. How difficult do you think it would be to implement that for relatively small application? My second option would be to just create my own using php and MySQL

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-googles-firebase-api-as-a-database-for-ignition/60265/4 "2022-06-01T16:12:21Z")

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The tricky part will probably be authentication. Actually interacting with the API should be relatively easy with `httpClient`, since it’s got good support for sending and retrieving JSON.