Add Firebase to the Android Project
Discover how to integrate Firebase into your Android application step-by-step. This lesson guides you through creating a Firebase project, adding the config file, and setting up necessary SDKs to enable user authentication, analytics, and data storage. Gain the skills to quickly connect Firebase services and enhance your app development workflow.
Introduction
Firebase makes building and running apps easier as it provides multiple products and solutions for building, releasing, and monitoring our app. Firebase significantly speeds up development time as we can integrate these services into the app with just a few lines of code. Moreover, with Firebase, we don’t have to worry about setting up the backend since it covers the most common use cases.
Firebase offers services for user authentication, NoSQL databases, file storage, app notifications, app analytics, cloud functions, and machine learning, among other things. For example, we can potentially build an app like Instagram using Firebase services. A simple Instagram ...