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| Setting up Firebase Realtime Database |
Prerequisites
- The latest version of Android Studio
- Your app connected to Firebase manually or via Firebase Assistant(See Connecting to Firebase).
You must complete the above step i.e. connect to Firbase, before executing the below steps
Setting it up with Android Studio
After adding Firebase to your project, you will need to add extra dependencies and do a few edits or add some code in order to setup the Realtime Database. You can follow either of the following documentations -
There are some discrepancies between the two. Using Firebase docs is recommended. Or you could just follow thw following steps - That way, you will not miss any steps from either documentations.
Add Gradle Dependencies1
In your app-level build.gradle file, add the following
dependencies {
implementation 'com.firebase:firebase-client-android:2.5.2+'
implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-database:15.0.0'
}
Installation of Firebase Android SDK, permissions and setup code
Detailed instructions can be found here.
Resources
To learn how to read write to the database in your Android application, refer to the two docs listed in References.
You can also find out how to use Firebase products in the Google documentation, but again it is probably a good idea to look at the Firebase docs as well, or anything that might be helpful.
References
- FIREBASE, Android Quickstart, 17/04/2018, 07/05/2018, https://www.firebase.com/docs/android/quickstart.html
- GOOGLE, Set up Firebase Realtime Database for Android, 05/04/2018, 07/05/2018, https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/android/start/
Footnote
The first line comes from the Firebase docs on setting up realtime db in Android Studio.
In the docs, 'compile' is used but that is deprecated and replaced by 'implementation'.
The second line comes from the Google docs on setting up realtime db in Android Studio.
If it is actually redundant to add both, please correct this article.