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Android Firebase: Integrate Google Login in Your App

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Android Firebase: Integrate Google Login in Your App Firebase  is one of the excellent announcement from the latest Google I/O. Firebase is easy to use, and there are numerous amount of features provided including Auth, database, storage, analytics, etc. This post covers the integration of Google Authentication in android application. There are multiple authentication options like Email & Password, GitHub, Facebook, Twitter and Anonymous. You can find the details about them on their website.  Firebase separates the user credentials from your application data and lets you focus on the user interface and experience for your app. Firebase uses NoSQL databases, if you are familiar with NoSQL databases then you can go for it anytime. It reduces the server side coding complexities. Many android applications need authentication and providing Google Sign - in option is the basic and most easy thing to do. Every android user has an google account. So it&#

Android : How To Integrate Google AdMob in your android application using Firebase

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How To Integrate Google AdMob in your android application using Firebase AdMob  by Google is an easy way to monetize mobile apps with targeted, in-app advertising. It can be used to integrate ads in multiple platforms like android, ios, etc.  AdMob by Google is a mobile advertising platform that you can use to generate revenue from your app. Using AdMob with Firebase Analytics provides you with additional app usage data and analytics capabilities. AdMob is now a part of Firebase. Hence method of integrating the ads into your application is changed a bit. But Google has made it even simpler.  Following are the prerequisites for integrating ads   Android Studio 1.0 or higher  Android API level 9 or above  An Android Studio project There are two types of ads : Banner and Interstitial Banner ads appear on a portion of a screen while interstitial ads covers the whole screen. We will be discussing how to add banner ads.  How to star

How to Add Menu Tabs in Blogger

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How to Add Menu Tabs in Blogger When I first started blogging, I was confused with the blogger layout. Blogger allows only posts to be created by default. So, it was a tough task to figure out how to add menu tabs at the top. You must have came across various professional blogging websites and each one of them has beautiful tabs above it. How cool it would be if you can add the same feature in your Blogger blogs? What's the use of the Menu Tabs? Well, menu tabs are used for navigation across your various posts. Normally in the absence of tabs, you write a post then add some labels to describe the entire post aptly and then publish it. This will get added to your posts. Now, when someone visits your blog, then the person can see all your posts one by one lined up. Visitors then have to scroll past each post they come across to get to the next one. Don't you think that era of serial posts is way past behind? Wouldn't it be great if all your posts are or