Getting Started with Firebase Realtime Database and Xamarin.Forms

With Firebase Realtime Database you have a very powerful DocumentDB at your service. In this video we will see how to insert data into a database and have it show up on another Xamarin.Forms app in realtime!

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⏱ Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
00:13 - What We Will Learn in This Video
00:43 - Create Firebase Project
05:20 - Sample Apps Structure
07:53 - Implement Firebase Real-Time Database
09:15 - Saving Data
10:37 - Retrieve Data Real-Time
14:49 - Running Sample Apps
16:06 - Outro

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[sifar]

This is pretty exciting because this is gonna enable things like live chatting, live location sharing, etc. 👍🏼

[RonalPortes]

Hi, thank you for sharing all this tips with the cummunity. Can you please do a video on firebase authentication?

[truedaystar]

This is kinda exciting... Couple location based apps I want to make along with some data included. Your other videos are great too. Thanks for sharing.

[machtal]

wow!! another firebase video, thank you. Did you gonna do Firebase In-App Messaging implementation in Xamarin? Because it's hard to find this topic :(

[SkyPoly]

Thank you so much I am able now to control my Xamarin app with wpf

[motorparadise]

We need more firebase and xamarin.forms videos along with some firebase server-side restrictions and coding.

[anandshindey]

Just what i needed. James en Gerald, dank je.

[rickshadle]

Thanks for posting this video. I attempted to execute your code with my own Firebase DB but when posting a text message via the Entry on the XFFirebaseRealtimeDBSample project, post appears to be successful but when I view my Firebase DB there is no data. I received no errors. What I did was break the projects up into separate ones and get the same results. The client code throws an error. I must be doing something wrong but not sure what it is. I used your code verbatim but error city.

[yaKaiZen]

Great introduction and to-the-point information! I am totally new to MAUI and wondering if the same could be applied to MAUI as well.

[Pevi]

Hi Gerald, would you be interested in making an updated version of this in Maui?

[elijahromer]

Awesome, thanks Gerald. Would you please make a video like this for integrating Firebase Firestore with .NET MAUI targeting .NET 7 by chance?

[philippedoumet]

Thank you Gerald, gread video as always 😄. Do you plan on making a video on how to post an image to firebase?

[snooki]

NIce, that's the kind of video that I was looking for (Discord question :p). The nice thing is coding, is when you reply to one question, you open 3 others xD Thanks Gerlald !

[ahmedelborki]

I have a question
Do you have to configure each platform you develop with Google-service.json file ?

The thing is when I used firebase, the response takes a long time to upload data

Thanks
Best regards

[christianzaragoza]

Hola Gerald, excelente aporte, se podrá hacer lo mismo con Maui?

[teymurasadov]

Wow, for me it was a first introduction to Firebase Database, thanks 🙏
But now I'm wondering, could it fully replace the backend api with storing data in azure sql or cosmos 🤔

[TheLinkimos]

Hi Gerald,
How can I send data to the database offline and retrieve data from the database offline?

[robinthereviewer]

I love your videos, so helpful to me a newbie Xamarin Forms / Firebase developer. Is there a simple way to get the data once on page load if I want to display static data (from a Firebase collection) in a CollectionView, including an image URL? I don't think I need it to be observable.

[НесторГрин]

Thank you a lot. Now, i am building an app with net maui with firebase realtime db, it works well, but i can't disconnect the app from firebase, Dispose() method works, i am not getting new messages from firebase, but in the firebase console, usage tab, i see that my app is not disconnected

[salali]

Thanks,
I noticed that the real time updating is working for a while when I open the app, then it freazes and does not update data automatically, so I wrap the stack layout within RefreshView.
I dont want to tweak the code I want the data to be updated automatically.