Handling errors encountered when using Firebase email and password authentication (Kotlin)

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Firebase is a solution to enable developers to focus more on building the applications without the need of worrying about managing the backend. Features like user authentication, database, file storage, notifications, and more can be handled by Firebase. By Atanda Oluchi Aminat.

In this post, we’ll focus on learning how to implement user authentication using Firebase Email and the password sign-in method in Kotlin. In addition to that, we’ll take a look at some potential errors developers encounter during this process and how to resolve them.

The article then explains following steps:

  • Creating an Android project
  • Create a Firebase project
  • Adding user authentication screens to app

In the article we’ve learned some of the features that Firebase has to offer. We dived deep into user authentication using email and password. We also learnt how to handle or prevent some major errors while doing this process. Good read!

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