Presentation by Jerry Jalava, Senior System Architect, Google Developer Expert, Authorised Trainer at Qvik. Presentation held at Helsinki Android Meetup on the 30th of Aug 2016.

1. Senior System Architect, Google
Developer Expert, Authorised Trainer
REAL-TIME IMAGE
SHARING
JERRY JALAVA
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2. CLIENT ASKS FOR POC…
‣ Users should be able to easily sign-in
(which is required)
‣ Users should be able to upload images
from their camera
‣ Other users should see these images
immediately
‣ Users should be able to manage their
own images
‣ Users should be able to like images of
others
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3. DEADLINE IS SET FOR
YESTERDAY
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4. SO WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO
‣ Some server to handle our uploads and
other api requests
‣ Scalable storage system for storing the
images
‣ A mechanism to notify all users at once
about new images, and fetch them
‣ Build the Authentication and Listing
views to Android client
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5. BUT ALL THAT WILL TAKE
AT LEAST DAYS
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6. NOT NECESSARILY
WHAT IF I TOLD YOU,
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7. @QVIK
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8. LETS JUST USE FOLLOWING
‣ Firebase Auth
‣ Firebase Storage
‣ Firebase Realtime Database
‣ FirebaseUI
(https://github.com/firebase/firebaseui)
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9. NOW WE HAVE SOLVED
‣ Some server to handle our uploads and
other api requests
‣ Scalable storage system for storing the
images
‣ A mechanism to notify all users at once
about new images, and fetch them
‣ For UI, we will use ready components as
much as possible
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10. BUILDING
LETS START
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11. 1. LETS ADD FIREBASE TO OUR APP
@QVIK
We head to https://console.firebase.google.com/ and create new project
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12. 1. LETS ADD FIREBASE TO OUR APP
@QVIK
Next we create and download Firebase configuration for our app
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13. 2. LETS ENABLE AUTHENTICATION
@QVIK
We head to Authentication / Sign-In method config and enable Anonymous auth
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14. 3. LETS BUILD THE BASIC UI
@QVIK
(Create some amazing UI by writing layout XML)
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15. 4. FETCH THE ADDED IMAGES WITH LIVE CHANGES
@QVIK
Here is just one simple way of listening for changes in our images collection
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16. 5. UPLOAD IMAGE TO STORAGE
@QVIK
Here is just one simple way of uploading a file to Firebase storage
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17. AND WE ARE DONEWELL, ALMOST
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18. SCAN THE QR CODE TO INSTALL
HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/JERRYJJ/FIREBASE-STORAGE-
DEMO-ANDROID
LIVE DEMO
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20. THANK YOU
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