android - How firebase listener actually work?

Question

I'm wondering on Android, how the underlying actual mechanism work when you add an listener to the database. Is it just more frequent pulling or something else special?

Update: To make it clearer, I understand what a listener is, but I meant how does the 'listening' scheme work, how a client (Android) knows the data on the server changed. Is it just a periodical pulling? (and Firebase engineers already do the hard work to cover that and make it easy for us).

Looks like firebase is not open-source.

// Attach an listener to read the data at our posts reference
ref.addValueEventListener(new ValueEventListener() {
    @Override
    public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot snapshot) {
        System.out.println(snapshot.getValue());
    }
    @Override
    public void onCancelled(FirebaseError firebaseError) {
        System.out.println("The read failed: " + firebaseError.getMessage());
    }
});

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