--- description: Tutorials, guides, and updates for Capacitor development. Live Updates, plugins, Ionic, and cross-platform app development. title: The Capacitor Developer Blog - Capawesome image: https://capawesome.io/docs/assets/images/social/blog/index.png --- [Skip to content ](#blog) [📲 Introducing **Build Sharing** — get your builds onto testers' devices with a link & QR code. 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](/docs/cloud/native-builds/build-without-git/) * [ Access Git Behind a Firewall ](/docs/cloud/native-builds/firewall-access/) * [ Integrations ](/docs/cloud/native-builds/integrations/) * Reference * [ Troubleshooting ](/docs/cloud/native-builds/troubleshooting/) * [ FAQ ](/docs/cloud/native-builds/faq/) * [ App Store Publishing ](/docs/cloud/app-store-publishing/) * [ Submit a Build ](/docs/cloud/app-store-publishing/submit-a-build/) * [ Submit Automatically After a Build ](/docs/cloud/app-store-publishing/submit-automatically/) * [ Troubleshooting ](/docs/cloud/app-store-publishing/troubleshooting/) * [ FAQ ](/docs/cloud/app-store-publishing/faq/) * [ Automations ](/docs/cloud/automations/) * [ Reference ](/docs/cloud/automations/reference/) * [ Troubleshooting ](/docs/cloud/automations/troubleshooting/) * [ FAQ ](/docs/cloud/automations/faq/) * [ Assist ](/docs/cloud/assist/) * [ CLI ](/docs/cloud/cli/) * APIs and SDKs * [ Webhooks ](/docs/cloud/webhooks/) * [ Integrations ](/docs/cloud/integrations/) * Notifications * Account * [ Organization ](/docs/cloud/organizations/) * [ Two-Factor Enforcement ](/docs/cloud/organizations/two-factor-authentication/) * [ Audit Logs ](/docs/cloud/organizations/audit-logs/) * [ Billing ](/docs/cloud/organizations/billing/) * [ License Keys ](/docs/cloud/license-keys/) * [ AI ](/docs/ai/) * [ Insiders ](/docs/insiders/) * [ Billing & Plans ](/docs/insiders/billing-and-plans/) * [ FAQ ](/docs/insiders/faq/) * [ License ](https://capawesome.io/legal/eula/) * [ Support ](/docs/support/) * [ Contributing ](/docs/contributing/) * Contributing code * [ Code of Conduct ](/docs/contributing/code-of-conduct/) * [ Questions ](https://docs.github.com/en/discussions/collaborating-with-your-community-using-discussions/participating-in-a-discussion#creating-a-discussion) * [ Blog ](/blog/) * Categories ## [Introducing Capawesome Platform: The Mobile App Platform for Modern Teams](/blog/announcing-capawesome-platform/) Today we're launching **Capawesome Platform** — Capawesome Cloud and Insider SDKs unified under one brand, one website, one onboarding flow, and one pricing system. It's the biggest change we've ever made, and almost every detail of it came directly from your feedback. Welcome to the new [capawesome.io](/). --- ## [How to Use SQLite in a Capacitor App](/blog/how-to-use-sqlite-in-a-capacitor-app/) To use SQLite in a Capacitor app, install the [Capacitor SQLite plugin](/docs/sdks/capacitor/sqlite/), open a database with `open()`, and then read and write rows with `query()` and `execute()`. The plugin gives you one API across Android, iOS, Web, and Electron, so the same code runs everywhere without touching platform-specific database code. This is the integration guide: we start from an empty project and build up to a production-ready setup — schema migrations with versioning, transactions, an encrypted database, and a secure place to keep the encryption key. Every snippet is copy-paste ready. ## [Track App Events with Firebase Analytics in Capacitor](/blog/capacitor-firebase-analytics-guide/) Knowing what users actually do in your app, not just how many installed it, is the difference between guessing and deciding. The [Capacitor Firebase Analytics plugin](/docs/sdks/capacitor/firebase/analytics/) gives you Google's free, unlimited-volume analytics service behind one API for Android, iOS, and web. This guide walks the whole thing end to end — installing and configuring the plugin, logging events and screen views, and verifying them in real time — plus the platform quirks that catch teams off guard and the parts of Firebase Analytics that are easy to get wrong in production. ## [Upload & Manage Files with Firebase Storage in Capacitor](/blog/capacitor-firebase-cloud-storage-guide/) Profile pictures, user-uploaded documents, generated PDFs — every app eventually needs somewhere to put files that isn't the device itself. The [Capacitor Firebase Cloud Storage plugin](/docs/sdks/capacitor/firebase/cloud-storage/) gives you native upload/download SDKs for Android and iOS, plus the Firebase JS SDK on web, behind one shared API. This guide walks the whole thing end to end — creating the storage bucket, installing and configuring the plugin, uploading and downloading files — plus the platform differences that catch teams off guard and the production practices worth knowing before you ship. ## [Capacitor Firestore: Real-Time Data & Offline Sync](/blog/capacitor-firebase-cloud-firestore-guide/) Storing and syncing app data usually means picking between rolling your own backend or relying on the Firebase JavaScript SDK inside a WebView, which comes with weaker performance and its own authentication quirks on native. The [Capacitor Firebase Cloud Firestore plugin](/docs/sdks/capacitor/firebase/cloud-firestore/), sponsored by [AppScreens](https://appscreens.com/?%5Flocale=en&utm%5Fsource=capawesome&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=capawesome&gclid=capawesome), gives you the native Android and iOS Firestore SDKs behind one Capacitor API instead. This guide walks the whole thing end to end — creating the Firestore database, installing and configuring the plugin, reading and writing data, and how offline sync and real-time listeners behave in practice — plus the production practices and gotchas that trip teams up in real apps. ## [Firebase Authentication in Capacitor: Setup & Best Practices](/blog/capacitor-firebase-authentication-guide/) Most apps need to know who's using them, and building that from scratch (password hashing, session tokens, social login handshakes, phone verification) is a lot of surface area to get wrong. The [Capacitor Firebase Authentication plugin](/docs/sdks/capacitor/firebase/authentication/) wraps Firebase's native Android and iOS Authentication SDKs, plus the Firebase JS SDK on web, behind a single API, so you get production-grade sign-in without writing that layer yourself. The catch is that the setup has real depth — a Firebase project, native config files, and per-provider steps that the reference docs assume you already understand. This guide walks the whole thing end to end: creating the project, installing and configuring the plugin, wiring up Google and email/password sign-in, and then the production practices and gotchas that actually trip teams up. ## [Capacitor Privacy Screen: Hide Sensitive App Content](/blog/capacitor-privacy-screen-hide-app-content/) Open your phone's app switcher right now and look at what's on screen. If you use a banking app, a dating app, or anything with private messages, there's a good chance a snapshot of that content is sitting there in plain view. Anyone can also screenshot or screen-record it without you knowing. The [Capacitor Privacy Screen plugin](/docs/sdks/capacitor/privacy-screen/) closes that gap with a few lines of code, and the apps that use it well tend to be the ones people trust with their most sensitive information. ## [Revamped Git Integrations in Capawesome Cloud](/blog/git-integration-revamp-in-capawesome-cloud/) The Git integration in Capawesome Cloud just got its biggest upgrade yet. Git connections now live at the organization level instead of being tied to individual user accounts, GitHub gets a dedicated GitHub App with per-repository access, Gitea and plain Git (HTTP/S) join the list of supported providers, and every provider now offers a simple personal access token flow — including self-hosted and enterprise instances. With this upgrade, OAuth-based Git connections are deprecated: they continue to work until **December 31, 2026**, after which you'll need to switch to the GitHub App or a personal access token. Here's what's new — and how to migrate. ## [Capacitor ML Kit 8.2.0: 14 New Plugins](/blog/capacitor-mlkit-8-2-0-release/) [Capacitor ML Kit](/docs/sdks/capacitor/mlkit/) 8.2.0 is the biggest release in the project's history: 14 new plugins land at once, completing coverage of Google's [ML Kit](https://developers.google.com/ml-kit) APIs. There are new vision plugins for text recognition, image labeling, object detection, pose detection, and digital ink recognition; natural language plugins for smart replies, entity extraction, and language identification; and six GenAI plugins that run Gemini Nano directly on the device. All of it is on-device machine learning: no server, no API keys, and no per-request costs. Here's what's in the release and how to use it. ## [Electron vs. Tauri for Capacitor Apps](/blog/electron-vs-tauri-for-capacitor-apps/) Capawesome now offers two ways to take a Capacitor app to the desktop: the [Capacitor Electron Platform](/docs/sdks/capacitor/electron/) and the [Capacitor Tauri Platform](/docs/sdks/capacitor/tauri/). Both are open source, both run your existing web build on macOS, Windows, and Linux, and both are maintained by the same team. So the question of Electron vs. Tauri for Capacitor apps is not about which project is better in the abstract. It is about which one fits the app you are building. This post walks through that decision. Back to top ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Blog", "@id": "https://capawesome.io/blog/#blog", "name": "The Capacitor Developer Blog", "description": "Tutorials, guides, and updates for Capacitor development. 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