Updating User Credentials
Learn how to send password recovery emails to users as well as customize and personalize the email contents.
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Firebase also allows us to enable our users to change their user information without requesting help from the admin. Login issues like forgotten passwords can be addressed by the user in our app. To allow users to update their password in a Firebase Authentication system, we can implement the following steps:
Forgotten password
We can use a Firebase Authentication system and implement the following procedures to retrieve the email linked to a forgotten password.
Controller
Create a function in the GetX controller to deal with password recovery:
void resetPassword(String email) async {try {await auth.sendPasswordResetEmail(email: email);// Password reset email sent successfullyGet.snackbar("Reset Password","Password reset email sent",backgroundColor: Colors.green,snackPosition: SnackPosition.TOP,titleText: const Text("Success",style: TextStyle(color: Colors.white),),);} catch (e) {print(e.toString());// Handle password reset errorGet.snackbar("Reset Password","Failed to send reset email",backgroundColor: Colors.red,snackPosition: SnackPosition.TOP,titleText: const Text("Error",style: TextStyle(color: Colors.white),),);}}
Line 3: This function makes use of Firebase Authentication’s
sendPasswordResetEmailmethod. In thetry-catchblock, we check if the specified email address is registered with the system, and we send a password reset email. Otherwise, we show a message that says, “Failed to send reset email.” ...