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Mastering Firebase for Android Development

You're reading from   Mastering Firebase for Android Development Build real-time, scalable, and cloud-enabled Android apps with Firebase

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788624718
Length 394 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ashok Kumar S Ashok Kumar S
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Preface 1. Keep It Real – Firebase Realtime Database FREE CHAPTER 2. Safe and Sound – Firebase Authentication 3. Safe and Sound – Firebase Crashlytics 4. Genie in the Cloud – Firebase Cloud Functions 5. Arsenal for Your Files – Firebase Cloud Storage 6. Not Just a Keeper, Firebase Hosting 7. Inspection and Evaluation – Firebase Test Lab 8. A Smart Watchdog – Firebase Performance Monitoring 9. Application Usage Measuring and Notification, Firebase Analytics, and Cloud Messaging 10. Changing Your App – Firebase Remote Config and Dynamic Links 11. Bringing Everyone on the Same Page, Firebase Invites, and Firebase App Indexing 12. Making a Monetary Impact and Firebase AdMob and AdWords 13. Flexible NoSQL and Cloud Firestore 14. Analytics Data, Clairvoyant, Firebase Predictions 15. Training Your Code and ML Kit 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Firebase SDK Email Authentication

Firebase Authentication for email credentials is one of the most simple and powerful onboarding features. To be able to make use of this facility, we need to enable the Email provider in the Firebase console. Using the Android Studio Firebase window, we can set up Firebase Authentication. Alternatively, we can add the configuration google-play-services.json file and dependencies manually. In your application level Gradle file, add the following dependency:

compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-auth:11.8.0'

We need to declare an instance of the FirebaseAuth class, using which we can later get an access to the Firebase AuthResult object:

private FirebaseAuth mAuth;

We need to initialize the FirebaseAuth reference in the onCreate method, as shown here: 

mAuth = FirebaseAuth.getInstance();
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