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Reading and Writing Data

Reading and Writing Data

Learn how to read and write data to the Realtime Database.

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Setting up

To get started with reading and writing data in Realtime Database, we need to first create the database in our project in the Firebase Console.

Firebase

Follow the steps below:

  1. Navigate to the “All products” menu and select “Realtime Database.”

  2. Continue by clicking “Create Database.”

  3. Select the preferred location.

  4. Select test mode to enable a quick setup.

The step-by-step guide to enabling Realtime Databases is illustrated in the following slides:

Flutter project

We then need to integrate Realtime Database in our Flutter app using the following steps:

  1. First, add the firebase_database package to the pubspec.yaml file in the flutter dependancies section.
  2. Next, add databaseURL to the main.dart file on the web Firebase initialization. The following code snippet show how this is achieved:
    
     apiKey: "AIzaSyAmOB_-8DIEIwJEOvrM2a8C6RE-KbvSDDc",
     projectId: "educative-9",
     storageBucket: "educative-9.appspot.com",
     //Here is the line
      databaseURL: "https://educative-9-default-rtdb.firebaseio.com", 
     messagingSenderId: "14205101883",
     appId:"1:14205101883:web:7c0db5d88bc2dc0310791e",

Note: The keys we’ve mentioned (apiKey, projectId, storageBucket, messagingSenderId, appId) are all part of the Firebase project configuration. These keys are required to initialize and authenticate our Firebase project when interacting with Firebase services on web platforms. ...