InstaFire Ep 2: Firebase and Firestore Intro- Simple Android Instagram Clone with Firebase in Kotlin
This video (episode 2 of 12) is an introduction to Firebase, which is a "backend as a service" that will power our app. We talk about the post and user objects we'll show in our application, and how we'll structure our data inside these collections. We use Firestore to store our data.
InstaFire playlist: • InstaFire: Android Instagram Clone with Fi...
Helpful links for more information:
➤ What is Firebase: https://firebase.google.com/
➤ Good explanation of Firestore and NoSQL: • What is a NoSQL Database? How is Cloud Fir... .
➤ Firestore: https://firebase.google.com/docs/fire...
➤ Coding in Flow playlist about Firebase Storage: • Firebase Storage - Upload and Retrieve Ima...
Here's the Yelp playlist if you want to understand normal APIs and how to interact with them (as opposed to Firebase): • Android Yelp Clone with Networking
In these videos, we build a basic Android Instagram app clone using Firebase, written in Kotlin. Our app allows the user to sign in and create posts with an image and description. We use Firebase, an app development platform developed by Google, to power our application. We use various Firebase services such as Authentication, Storage, and Firestore to build our app.
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