Flutter: Part 10 Firebase Cloud Firestore

3h 53mAdvanced2019-08-30

Authors

London App Brewery

App development bootcamp

Angela Yu

Doctor, iOS Developer, Founder of London App Brewery

Course details

Learn how to build and deploy interactive Flutter apps for iOS and Android with Google Firebase. This project-based course is an advanced use case for Flutter that helps developers build a fully functioning messaging app that can be deployed directly to app stores. Instructor Angela Lu starts by helping you prepare the app screens and classes and add custom interactive animation. Then she shows how to create new Firebase projects for both Android and iOS, integrating user authentication and a Firestore database. She also shows how to stream the messaging data and complete the styling of the app in anticipation of launch. This practical assignment helps illustrate the lessons learned and gives you a fun project to add to your Flutter portfolio.

Learning objectives
Refactoring routes
Customizing Flutter animations
Setting up a Firebase project
Authenticating users with FirebaseAuth
Streaming data from Firestore

Skills covered

FlutterCross-Platform DevelopmentMobile DevelopmentSoftware Development ToolsGoogleSoftware DevelopmentOne-Off

Concepts

1. Flutter and Firebase Cloud Firestore - Flash Chat Project

01 - Flash chat - A lightning fast messaging app
02 - Named routes challenge
03 - Dart static modifier
04 - Refactor routes with the static const
05 - Flutter hero animations
06 - Custom Flutter animations with the animation controller
07 - Dart mixins
08 - Prepackaged Flutter animations
09 - Code refactoring challenge
10 - Creating a new Firebase project
11 - Android Firebase project setup
12 - iOS Firebase project setup
13 - Firebase Flutter packages setup (iOS and Android)
14 - Registering users with Firebase using FirebaseAuth
15 - Authenticating users with FirebaseAuth
16 - Showing a spinner while the user waits
17 - Saving data into Cloud Firestore
18 - Listening for data from Firebase using streams
19 - Dart streams
20 - Stream widgets using the StreamBuilder
21 - The Flutter ListView
22 - A different UI for different senders
23 - Cloud Firestore security rules