I want to use Firebase to get the current time on server without writing to the database and then reading it.
Any one knows a solution to directly get a current time stamp from Firebase?
I want to use Firebase to get the current time on server without writing to the database and then reading it.
Any one knows a solution to directly get a current time stamp from Firebase?
Yes there is! It doesn't matter if it is for IOS or for Android, you can write a frunction in Cloud Functions for Firebase which will be as easy as:
exports.currentTime = functions.https.onRequest((req, res) => {
res.send({"timestamp":new Date().getTime()})
})
You can host this in Cloud Function and get the server timestamp without user interaction.
For more informations on how to set/read a timestamp in a Firebase Real-time database, please see my answer from this post.
You have to write a firebase cloud function that calculates the time. Deploy that function on firebase. Whenever you request that function it will gives you the current time.