Android Based Instant Messaging Tool Using
Firebase as Backend
In today’s world, communication is very important and keeping this communication in real time is important as our lives become faster. Internet communication is becoming more and more important these days. Online communication allows users to communicate with other people in a fast and easy way. Keeping this in mind, the communication app should be able to transfer files and messages instantly without or with little delay, depending on the broadcast field. For such a system to work there must be a database that will update in real time to store all the data transferred.Google Firebase is a service that provides real-time data server, as well as many other features and Firebase enables us to develop applications that are easy to connect to. In this paper, we propose a system that will be able to send text and text-based files such as photos, audio, video, text online between two users on the network in real time.We use the Android and Google Firebase operating system to manage contact back functionality, highlighting various features of the application and service.