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One of the beauties of cloud storage is that your app doesn’t need to get bogged down with massive amounts of data from photos and videos. Firebase provides a simple and easy to use solution for storing this data called Firebase Storage. Firebase Storage allows users to store files of various types at a scalable price, meaning that if you only store a handful of files it won’t cost anything, but as you scale up the capacity of your storage, your costs will increment accordingly. It’s a very nice solution for startups and small developers to utilize in their apps, hence why it’s so popular to use with Flutter and other mobile applications.
Setting up and using Firebase Storage in Flutter is very easy. I’m only going to be covering setup and reading data from Firebase Storage, not writing to.
[1] Setup:
If you haven’t done so yet, go ahead and create a new project on firebase.google.com. You’re then going to want to make sure you have your flutter application setup to connect to firebase. If you need help on how to set that up, see the following article: https://itnext.io/firebase-authentication-in-flutter-2020-made-simple-19eaad197bfe
