Introduction
This article demonstrates how to create an Android application with Firebase. And actually, for making simple apps like for chatting, the importance of Firebase is extensive. So, a developer must be aware of it. I will show you the process step by step.
Sign in to the Firebase
You can easily sign in to Firebase by using your Gmail address. After signing in, at the top right corner, you will see the “go-to console” link, just click on that.
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Creating a Project
Now, we are at the console page. Creating a project in it is the primary step. Through this project, we can control our chat app's sign-in settings and others. But there are some steps for creating a project in it.
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Just click the "New Project" button. Then, you will see a window asking for the project name, project id, and country.
*Give a name to the project and a project id will generate automatically. Then, fill in your country name. After that, click on "Create Project".
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Then you can see a page with an overview as head title and 3 icons which are telling you to add firebase to your android app, ios, web app. We want to use the firebase with the android application. So just click at the android app option.
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Again you can see a register window with the android package name, nickname, debug sign-in certificate SHA1.
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We will get the package name by opening an android project in the android studio. And then go to MainActivity.java, Copy the package name as shown in the figure given below. And paste in the package name column.
And we can give any nickname to our app. So just fill that box with your app name. The next step is to find the debug sign-in certificate SHA1.
For that again take the android project in android studio. You can find that step in Figure 7.
On opening Gradle, we can see some options associated with our project. And there you will find the android option and then sign in the report as sub-option. And the step is shown in Figure 8.
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You can then find the SHA1 code as I showed in Figure 9.
Figure 9
Just copy the address and paste it in the box.
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Register the app by clicking the button. For adding a fire base in your android app you should download the google-services.json file. And move the google-services.json file you downloaded into your android app module root directory. And it is given in Figure 11.
Figure 11
Now you will able to create an android app with Firebase and you can manage the settings in the project that you created in firebase at any time needed.
Summary
In this article, I discussed how we can make an android app in android studio with Firebase.