HarshOza36 / LocTrack

A sample location tracking application connected with Firebase

LocTrack

A sample location tracking application connected with Firebase. This app was created as a part of Mobile Communication and Computing (MCC) Project.

Steps :

• Sign up with google into firebase, create a new project,Name it something as you want.

• Now, Go to Realtime Database and create a database.

• Now in app/src/debug/res/values/google_maps_api.xml, go to https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/signup, Select the firebase project and get your Google Maps api and paste the code by replacing YOUR_KEY_HERE

• Go back to firebase console into your project

• Now click on the plus icon to Add app . This connects your app to the firebase console

• After that select your own Platform , For Us it is Android

• Now you will get a page as shown below. Enter your app package name , App name as you did in Android Studio and then , get your SHA1 signature in app/src/debug/res/values/google_maps_api.xml and then click Register app

• Now you will have to download the config file provided and paste it in the app folder shown that is google-services.json be pasted in the app folder

• After that you need to add Firebase SDK as shown on that page to the project level and app level gradle files.

• Finally , Run the 4th step which verifies the connection.

• After that, you can refer to the app/src/main/ folder for XML designing and Android developing.

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