Create a Login Screen

Build a login screen with authentication to verify that users are who they say they are.

Create a Sign Up Screen

Your login screen is ready, but your users need to be able to create their own accounts. Work on the layout for the sign up screen.

Create a Channel

Create the layout for a single channel in your app. This layout will contain an icon, a channel name and a description.

Create a Message Item

Build the layout for the messages that our users are going to send to each other, containing text, a username and a timestamp.

Create a Chat Screen

No chat app is complete without a chat screen. Create the layout for the chat screen on which the users can read and write messages.

Create a Dialog Layout

Create the layout for a dialog that will display to users who wish to create a new channel.

Create a Fragment

The layout of your dialog is ready. Now you need to create the fragment that will handle functionality such as calling the appropiate web services.

Create a Firebase Project

Create a firebase account, then set up a new firebase project to use in your app.

Enable Firebase Authentication

Learn how to enable and configure email authentication for your Android app using Firebase.

Add Login to your App

In this episode, learn how to add login capabilities to your app using Firebase.

Add Sign Up to your App

Allow users to create new accounts by submitting an email and password.

Enable Cloud Firestore

Enable Cloud Firestore using the Firebase console, and learn about the two different kinds of databases that Firebase has to offer.

Work with Collections

Learn how to create documents and collections using the Firebase console.

Create a Firestore Adapter

Create the Firestore adapter that will be used by the adapters of our app.

Create a Model

In this episode, create the channel adapter for our channels screen.

Create a Channel & Chat Adapters

Create the adapters for our screens, then add a backend to the dialog you previously created to allow users to create new channels with a name and description.

Display Channels

Learn how to use the previously created adapters to display channels in your Recycler View.

Display Chat Messages

Almost there! In this lesson, finally start sending and receiving messages with your app.

Create New Channels

Give your users the ability to create new channels using a dialog, and revel in your completed app!

Intermediate level Android developers who are interested in learning how to use Firebase by creating a fun app like Slack or Discord. This course expects you to be familiar with Android Studio and Kotlin programming.

• Creating a UI
• Creating a Firebase Account
• Setting Up Firebase
• Firebase Data Structure
• Firebase Authentication
• Firebase Realtime Database