A simple solution for implementing Firebase Authentication with Google, using Jetpack Compose on Android. — I have written a few months ago, an article regarding how to anonymously authenticate users with Firebase, but that’s a solution that you should take into consideration only when you want to provide your users the capability to try your app. It’s a pretty simple solution to implement and requires…

A simple solution for optimizing Firebase Realtime Database calls using data denormalization. — When it comes to displaying a list of products from a Firebase Realtime Database node that looks like this:

A simple solution to anonymously authenticate users with Firebase. — Most applications need to know the identity of their users. This means that when we create a new project, we often need to think about a solution that can handle authentication. When it comes to implementing such a mechanism, Firebase Authentication sounds like the best solution that we can take…

A simple solution for creating massively scalable Android applications with real-time updates. — When we start creating a new project, we usually try to find the best practices that can be implemented in order to have a reliable, scalable, and maintainable application. What does scalable mean? When it comes to structuring a project, it means that we have to create a design that can be practical and…

A simple solution for implementing pagination in Realtime Database using Jetpack Compose and Paging v3 library on Android. — When we are dealing with a large amount of data, we know that we can’t read it all at once. Why? Because it will take an enormous amount of time only to download it on the device. Besides that, if the data doesn’t fit into the memory, it’s possible to…

A simple solution for implementing Image Text Recognition using Machine Learning and Jetpack Compose: A Step-by-Step Guide. — I have used a long-time ML Kit for Firebase, for solving real-world problems in Android applications. However, things have changed and the linked page only describes the old version of the SDK. The functionality of the SDK has been split into two parts, Firebase ML, and ML Kit. …

A simple solution for implementing Firebase Authentication with email and password, using Jetpack Compose on Android — I’m writing this article because I was inspired by this episode from the series “Better Safe than Sorry”, where Peter Friese and Rachel Myers talked about the fact that Firebase authentication is really easy to implement, and I agree with that, but it becomes harder when you want to do…

A solution for implementing basic functionalities, like the catalog, product search, shopping cart, and orders in the Firebase e-commerce app using Jetpack Compose. — This is post 4 in the series about creating an Android shopping app using Firebase. If you haven’t read part 1 (introduction), part 2 (database schemas), and part 3 (structure of the project) yet, read up to catch up! For building this Android application, we’ll use the single activity pattern. So…

A solution for structuring the e-commerce app in Android Studio using the MVVM architecture pattern. — This is post 3 in the series about creating an Android shopping app using Firebase. If you haven’t read part 1 (introduction) and part 2 (database schemas) yet, read up to catch up! It’s true when it comes to clean architecture, there are many patterns out there, MVI (Model-View-Intent), MVP…