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Very cool, I'm glad I prepped my android app for this :D

One question: why the choice of returning everything as an ID, on mobile, this will require a lot of very small network requests.

If you use the Firebase SDKs the request is sent over a reused full duplex socket rather than creating new/individual connections.

Yeah, unfortunately, I'm trying to not use any closed source stuff in the app. Going to write some service layer stuff for it