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](/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 * [ Case Studies ](/blog/category/case-studies/) * [ Cloud ](/blog/category/cloud/) * [ Cordova ](/blog/category/cordova/) * [ Electron ](/blog/category/electron/) * [ Firebase ](/blog/category/firebase/) * [ Guides ](/blog/category/guides/) * [ Insiders ](/blog/category/insiders/) * [ Ionic Framework ](/blog/category/ionic-framework/) * [ ML Kit ](/blog/category/ml-kit/) * [ SDKs ](/blog/category/sdks/) * [ Showcase ](/blog/category/showcase/) * [ Updates ](/blog/category/updates/) ## [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. ## [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. ## [Migrate Off Capacitor Community Electron](/blog/capacitor-community-electron-migration/) If you have been searching for a maintained **capacitor community electron alternative**, this guide is for you. The [Capacitor Community Electron Platform](https://github.com/capacitor-community/electron) is no longer actively maintained, which leaves desktop apps pinned to aging Electron versions and a large generated project you have to babysit yourself. Here you will learn how to move your Capacitor desktop app to the maintained [Capacitor Electron Platform](/docs/sdks/capacitor/electron/), step by step. ## [The Complete Guide to Capacitor Device Sensors](/blog/capacitor-device-sensors-guide/) Fitness trackers, motion-controlled games, navigation apps, and adaptive UIs all lean on the same thing under the hood: the sensors already built into every Android and iOS phone. Native mobile teams have used these APIs for years; cross-platform and hybrid app developers building with Capacitor, Ionic, or a JavaScript framework often assume that kind of native device access means writing separate Swift and Kotlin code. It doesn't. Capacitor exposes ten hardware sensors as separate, focused plugins instead of one catch-all "sensors" API, so a single TypeScript codebase gets the same motion, environment, and device-state data a fully native app would. This guide covers all ten — grouped by what you're actually building (fitness tracking, games, navigation, adaptive UX, background work) rather than by sensor name — with a working snippet for each, the real apps that use this category of sensor data, and the platform gaps you'll actually hit. ## [Build a Desktop App with Capacitor and Electron](/blog/how-to-build-a-desktop-app-with-capacitor-and-electron/) If you already have a Capacitor web app running on iOS and Android, you're only a few commands away from a Capacitor Electron desktop app that ships to macOS, Windows, and Linux too. In this tutorial you'll take an existing web build, add the desktop target with the [Capacitor Electron Platform](/docs/sdks/capacitor/electron/), run it in a real window, and package native installers your users can download. No new toolchain to learn, just the same `cap` workflow you already use. Back to top