12 Firebase

• Setup up Firebase

  • Use Firebase documentation

    • https://firebase.google.com/docs/android/setup

  • Use Firebase Assistant in Android Studio

    • New project: Tools=> Firebase =>

• GitHub walkthrough example Don't forget to read the ReadMe.md file

• Setup Authentication

  • Authentication with Firebase

  • Firebase Quick Start source code

  • Mr. Tra's Starter Auth Starter code

• Setup Database

  • Play with creating and retrieving entries

  • Create and traverse subdirectories

• Create a chatroom app

  • Review the documentation

    • Structure, Read and Write, Lists of Data

    • Sample code

  • Review the approaches of each of these tutorials and pick the one you want to try (pay close attention to the data structures used)

    • code.tutsplus.com

    • The Crazy Programmer

    • Meet Patel

    • Ryan Ackermann

    • Code Labs

    • Or watch this YouTube Series

      • and his code

    • Another video from 2018

    • Older video that's popular but needs updating(Make sure you add adapter.startListening() to your onStart() - not in video{should stop it in onStop())

      • Mr. Tra's update of this tutorial

If you wish to continue working on game design and animations, the next step would be to incorporate SurfaceViews in your design to handle threading and more responsive fragments. Start by viewing Mr. Kosek's SurfaceView code and videos: https://github.com/pckosek/Android_SurfaceViews

Future optional topics:

• More game design with Fragments and SurfaceViews

• Take a photo

• RecyclerView

• Volley Requests