Firebase Authentication and Android

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2. What is Firebase Auth? • Firebase Authentication - 1/3 core services (realtime database, auth, hosting) of Firebase, Inc. platform • Provides backend services, easy-to-use SDKs, and ready-made UI libraries to authenticate users to your app* • Supports authentication using passwords, phone numbers, popular federated identity providers like Google, Facebook and Twitter, and more* * taken from https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth
3. Main features • Multiple Providers (Google Sign-In, Facebook, Twitter etc.) • Account Management (account creation, email verification and password reset) • Account Linking • Custom themes (next slides)
4. Setting up of Firebase Project (1)
5. Setting up of Firebase Project (2)
6. Sign-in providers (1) • Requires configuring of the project manually • Facebook (https://developers.facebook.com) • Twitter (https://dev.twitter.com) • GitHub (https://github.com/settings/applications/new)
7. Example of manual configuration
8. Sign-in providers (2) • Firebase console does all configuration by her own • Google Sign-In • Email/Password • Phone • Anonymous
9. No headache with config anymore?
10. Almost…
11. Project settings
12. Let’s begin with implementation on client side
13. • Using the Firebase UI Auth • Using the Firebase Authentication SDK Two ways of implementation • We will consider the first way - Firebase UI Auth
14. Dependencies • implementation ‘com.firebaseui:firebase-ui-auth:3.1.0’* • implementation ‘com.google.firebase:firebase-auth:11.8.0’ * the first one contains "firebase-auth" as it’s dependency. There is no need to add both of them into app’s build.gradle file.
15. Dependencies (Off topic) Starting from google play service's version below: implementation ‘com.google.android.gms:play-services-needed-service:9.4.0’* Where needed-service can be: "gcm", "location", “maps”, "ads" etc., play services implicitly includes firebase.
16. Play services goes with Firebase dependency
17. Usage of Firebase Auth-UI SDK (1) | | • Starting of activity for Google Sign-In result
18. Usage of Firebase Auth-UI SDK (2) • Starting of activity for email/password result • Starting of activity for Facebook result
19. Sign in result • When the sign-in flow is complete onActivityResult() will be called
20. Sign out • Firebase UI provides method to sign out of Firebase Auth
21. FirebaseUser • To get FirebaseUser from any place of your app just call: • You will get their account data in case user successfully signed in or null otherwise.
22. Using of Firebase Auth UI approach for the programmer seems quite easy BUT • What about UI? How it looks like for the user? Is it easy- customizable? spoiler: It isn’t!
23. Only two methods to customize the UI • Usages:
24. Example of UI using Facebook Provider
25. Example of UI using Email Provider • New activity pops up!
26. And “Total" customization
27. Just style it!
28. What Firebase doc says about customization of UI? • And it’s phenomenally! • Custom Themes - customize the look of FirebaseUI to match your app. Also, because FirebaseUI is open source, you can fork the project and customize it exactly to your needs.
29. Just do it!
30. Summary
31. References • R&D Project - https://github.com/RuslanKuziak/r-and-d- project • https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth • https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/android/ firebaseui • https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/android/ manage-users
32. Questions ?
33. Thanks for attention! Happy coding!