Firebase : Upload image or file from dashboard

Question

I'm trying to find a good alternative at Parse.

FireBase seems to be good, but I can't find how to upload image/file from the dashboard like in Parse ?

Can we upload image/file from the firebase dashboard like in Parse ?

Answer 1

No You Can Not because firebase doesn't provide such type of feature.

Edit:

Ah! My old accepted answer got unaccepted because I gave straight answer :) Well OP didn't ask about programming way of solution so I assumed not to provide one.

There are couple of approaches to handle images with firebase, I usually upload images to s3 bucket and store urls in firebase. Again there is choice to implement above approach i.e. do all on server-side, do all on client-side or do with mix of client-side and server-side. But It is better to do signaturing on server to keep thing secure.

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Answer 2

While the above is an answer, it's does't provide a solution, so here's a bit more data.

Uploading/storing data in firebase is super simple and requires a minimal amount of code.

For images, encode the image as a string and store the string in firebase. Then to retrieve the image, retrieve the string and decode it.

You should be able to do both in about 12 lines of code (depending on platform).

There are several examples already published here, I like this one with Swift.

Swift2 retrieving images from Firebase

Hope that helps!

Answer 3

No, you cannot upload directly, but you could use some opensource project out there that will make a simple dashboard for you to upload it easily like this tutorial