B.1 Add Realtime DB

Connect your AdobeAIR app to Firebase

1. Make sure you are considering the minimum requirements for running Firebase.
2. Install the Firebase SDK.
3. In the Firebase console, add your app to your Firebase project.

Configure Firebase Database Rules

The Realtime Database provides a declarative rules language that allows you to define how your data should be structured, how it should be indexed, and when your data can be read from and written to. By default, read and write access to your database is restricted so only authenticated users can read or write data. To get started without setting up Authentication, you can configure your rules for public access. This does make your database open to anyone, even people not using your app, so be sure to restrict your database again when you set up authentication.

Add the Realtime Database to your app

Before adding the Firebase realtime database (or any of the other Firebase child ANEs) to your AdobeAIR app, you need to make sure you have setup the firebaseCore.ane correctly in your project. To add the realtime database, you need to add the required ANEs and Frameworks to your project. These dependencies are explained in details in this document.

AIR manifest .xml file
Beside changes you need to make to your manifest .xml file when implementing the firebaseCore.ane you need to add the following changes also to make the DB ANE work properly:

<!-- 
	Add this meta-data tag under <service android:name="com.google.firebase.components.ComponentDiscoveryService" android:exported="false">

	You should have added the above service tag when you were implementing the FirebaseCore ANE.
-->

<service android:name="com.google.firebase.components.ComponentDiscoveryService" android:exported="false">

	<!--
		Other meta-data tags required by other ANEs.
	-->

	<!-- Required by firebase_database.ane -->
	<meta-data
		android:name="com.google.firebase.components:com.google.firebase.database.DatabaseRegistrar"
		android:value="com.google.firebase.components.ComponentRegistrar"/>

</service>






<extensions>
	
	<!-- 
		Required ANEs for the Firebase Core ANE comes here first.
		https://github.com/myflashlab/Firebase-ANE/wiki/A.4.-Initialize-Firebase-in-your-app
	-->
	
	<!-- To support Firebase Realtime Database -->
	<extensionID>com.myflashlab.air.extensions.firebase.realtimeDB</extensionID>
	
	<!-- 
		Download the dependency ANEs from https://github.com/myflashlab/common-dependencies-ANE
		These dependencies are not required on the iOS side.
	-->
	<extensionID>com.myflashlab.air.extensions.dependency.firebase.database</extensionID>
	<extensionID>com.myflashlab.air.extensions.dependency.firebase.database.collection</extensionID>
	<extensionID>com.myflashlab.air.extensions.dependency.firebase.auth</extensionID>
	<extensionID>com.myflashlab.air.extensions.dependency.googlePlayServices.flags</extensionID>
	<extensionID>com.myflashlab.air.extensions.dependency.gson</extensionID>
	
</extensions>