Firebase Advanced: Build Real Time Chat App In Android Studio

You are an Android developer and you have not developed any Android chat application yet? Then you are missing the real fun in development. Another aspect of chat apps is real-time messaging, which is the core of any real-time application.

You might have used and observed many other Android chat apps and would have wished to have your own. Right?

So why are you waiting? Get dive into my course of building impressive full-stack Android chat app Gup-Shup Android Studio with Firebase.

This course is a complete guide for you in developing a feature-rich Android chat app!

This course will cover:

• Creating a complete chat application with Android Studio and Firebase from scratch

• Sending and receiving messages instantly with the real-time Firebase Database

• Uploading and displaying image messages using Firebase Storage

• Uploading and displaying video messages using Firebase Storage

• Notifications to display new messages/friend request arrival using FCM

• Sending Direct Messages to other users in our chat

• Tracking/showing when users are online/offline and typing

• User authentication with Firebase

• Form validation for our Login and Register forms

What will you be learning in making Gupshup?

Throughout this course of making the Gup Shup app (chit-chat app), we'll be building a live chat app, where users will be able to create user, modify his/her profiles, send friend requests to others on Gupshup, send messages to other users, send media files, see when other users are typing and get notifications about new messages.

By the end, you will be comfortable using the below skills and you will be able to put them on your resume:

• Intent.

• Customized User Interface Design.

• Working with Dependencies in Android Gradle.

• Animations.

• Custom Progress Bar.

• Custom Action Bar.

• Android Recycler View.

• Adapters.

• Model Classes.

• Fragments.

• Customized Drawables.

• Menus.

• Google Firebase.

  • Firebase Authentications.

  • Firebase User Profile.

  • Firebase Database.

  • Firebase Storage.

  • Firebase Cloud Messaging.

What you’ll learn?

• Creating a real-time chat app using Firebase in an Android project.
• You will be able to create dynamic apps which can save data and files from the server.
• Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) for real-time Push Notifications.
• You will master Firebase Authentication, Firebase Database, Firebase File Store, Push Notifications and many more.

Who this course is for:

• Android Application Developers
• Android Developers who want to create a Chat App.
• Android Developers who want to create Complex dynamic apps that can save data and files from the server.
• Android Developers who want to learn Firebase.