Kotlin Firestore example - CRUD Operations with FirebaseUI FirestoreRecyclerAdapter

Cloud Firestore helps us store data in the cloud. It supports offline mode so our app will work fine (write, read, listen to, and query data) whether device has internet connection or not, it automatically fetches changes from our database to Firebase Server. We can structure data in our ways to improve querying and fetching capabilities. This tutorial show you an Android app that can do Firestore CRUD Operations with Android RecyclerView and FirebaseUI FirestoreRecyclerAdapter.

I. Technologies

– Android Studio 3
– Kotlin 1.2.0
– Firebase Firestore 11.8.0
– FirebaseUI Firestore 3.1.0

II. Overview

1. Goal

We will build an Android App that supports showing, inserting, editing, deleting Notes from/to Cloud Firestore Database with with Android RecyclerView and FirebaseUI FirestoreRecyclerAdapter:

cloud-firestore-crud-demo-show-notes

Firebase Console for Firestore will be like:

cloud-firestore-crud-demo-console-show-notes

2. Cloud Firestore

2.1 Add Firestore to Android App

Follow these steps to add Firestore to the Project.

2.2 Initialize & Reference

// Access a Cloud Firestore instance from your Activity

val db = FirebaseFirestore.getInstance()

// Reference to a Collection

val notesCollectionRef = db.collection("notes")

// Reference to a Document in a Collection

val jsaDocumentRef = db.collection("notes").document("jsa")

// or

val jsaDocumentRef = db.document("notes/jsa")

// Hierarchical Data with Subcollection-Document in a Document

val androidTutRef = db

.collection("notes").document("jsa")

.collection("tutorials").document("androidTutRef")

2.3 Add/Update/Get/Delete Data & Get Realtime Updates

Visit this part from previous Post for details.

3. FirebaseUI Firestore

To use the FirebaseUI Firestore to display list of data, we need:
– Java class for data object (Model)
– Java class for holding UI elements that match with Model’s fields (ViewHolder and layout)
– Custom RecyclerView adapter to map from a collection from Firestore to Android (FirestoreRecyclerAdapter)
– RecyclerView object to set the adapter to provide child views on demand.

cloud-firestore-ui-crud-demo-show-notes

3.1 Model and ViewHolder

– Model class is a class that represents the data from Firestore:

class Note {

var id: String? = null

var title: String? = null

var content: String? = null

// ...

}

– ViewHolder layout (R.layout.item_note) with UI items that correspond to Model fields:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

</LinearLayout>

– ViewHolder class contains Android UI fields that point to layout items:

class NoteViewHolder(view: View) : RecyclerView.ViewHolder(view) {

var title: TextView

var content: TextView

var edit: ImageView

var delete: ImageView

init {

title = view.findViewById(R.id.tvTitle)

content = view.findViewById(R.id.tvContent)

edit = view.findViewById(R.id.ivEdit)

delete = view.findViewById(R.id.ivDelete)

}

3.2 FirestoreRecyclerAdapter subclass

We need a subclass of the FirestoreRecyclerAdapter and implement its onBindViewHolder() & onCreateViewHolder() method:

private var adapter: FirestoreRecyclerAdapter<Note, NoteViewHolder>? = null

// ...

val query = firestoreDB!!.collection("notes")

val response = FirestoreRecyclerOptions.Builder<Note>()

.setQuery(query, Note::class.java)

.build()

adapter = object : FirestoreRecyclerAdapter<Note, NoteViewHolder>(response) {

override fun onBindViewHolder(holder: NoteViewHolder, position: Int, model: Note) {

val note = notesList[position]

holder.title.text = note.title

holder.content.text = note.content

holder.edit.setOnClickListener { updateNote(note) }

holder.delete.setOnClickListener { deleteNote(note.id!!) }

}

override fun onCreateViewHolder(parent: ViewGroup, viewType: Int): NoteViewHolder {

val view = LayoutInflater.from(parent.context)

.inflate(R.layout.item_note, parent, false)

return NoteViewHolder(view)

}

override fun onError(e: FirebaseFirestoreException?) {

Log.e("error", e!!.message)

}

Now look at these lines of code:

val query = firestoreDB!!.collection("notes")

val response = FirestoreRecyclerOptions.Builder<Note>()

.setQuery(query, Note::class.java)

.build()

adapter = object : FirestoreRecyclerAdapter<Note, NoteViewHolder>(response) {

override fun onCreateViewHolder(parent: ViewGroup, viewType: Int): NoteViewHolder {

val view = LayoutInflater.from(parent.context)

.inflate(R.layout.item_note, parent, false)

return NoteViewHolder(view)

}

– We tell FirestoreRecyclerAdapter object to use Note.class when reading from the Firestore database.
– Each Note will be displayed in a R.layout.item_note (that has 4 elements: tvTitle, tvContent, ivEdit, ivDelete).
– We indicate NoteViewHolder class for ViewHolder

FirebaseRecyclerAdapter will call onBindViewHolder() method for each Model it finds in database. It passes us the model and a ViewHolder.
So what we should do is map the fields from model to the correct View items:

override fun onBindViewHolder(holder: NoteViewHolder, position: Int, model: Note) {

val note = notesList[position]

holder.title.text = note.title

holder.content.text = note.content

holder.edit.setOnClickListener { updateNote(note) }

holder.delete.setOnClickListener { deleteNote(note.id!!) }

}

3.3 RecyclerView

Now we set the adapter for RecyclerView object to provide child views on demand:

val mLayoutManager = LinearLayoutManager(applicationContext)

rvNoteList.layoutManager = mLayoutManager

rvNoteList.itemAnimator = DefaultItemAnimator()

// adapter = object : FirestoreRecyclerAdapter<Note, NoteViewHolder>(response) {...}

adapter!!.notifyDataSetChanged()

rvNoteList.adapter = adapter

Remember to call adapter startListening() & stopListening() method to start/stop listening for changes in the Firestore database:

public override fun onStart() {

super.onStart()

adapter!!.startListening()

}

public override fun onStop() {

super.onStop()

adapter!!.stopListening()

}

3.4 Dependency

build.gradle file (App-level)

dependencies {

// ...

implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:26.1.0'

implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-firestore:11.8.0'

implementation 'com.firebaseui:firebase-ui-firestore:3.1.0'

}

apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'

4. Project Structure

kotlin-firestore-ui-crud-structure

II. Practice

1. Set up Project

– Create New Project with package name com.javasampleapproach.kotlin.firebase.cloudfirestore.
– Add images (found in source code) to drawable.
– Follow these steps to add Firestore to the Project.

2. Layout

2.1 Main Activity

Open res/layout/activity_main.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="match_parent"

android:orientation="vertical">

<android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView

android:id="@+id/rvNoteList"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="match_parent"

android:layout_marginTop="16dp"

android:scrollbars="vertical" />

</LinearLayout>

2.2 Item Layout

Add item_note.xml layout file to res/layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:orientation="horizontal"

android:padding="10dp"

android:weightSum="10">

<LinearLayout

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_weight="9"

android:orientation="vertical">

<TextView

android:id="@+id/tvTitle"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:padding="5dp"

android:text="Title"

android:textColor="@color/colorPrimary"

android:textSize="18sp" />

<TextView

android:id="@+id/tvContent"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:padding="5dp"

android:text="Text for Content" />

</LinearLayout>

<LinearLayout

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_weight="1"

android:gravity="right"

android:orientation="vertical">

<ImageView

android:id="@+id/ivEdit"

android:layout_width="30dp"

android:layout_height="30dp"

app:srcCompat="@drawable/ic_edit" />

<ImageView

android:id="@+id/ivDelete"

android:layout_width="30dp"

android:layout_height="30dp"

app:srcCompat="@drawable/ic_delete" />

</LinearLayout>

2.3 Activity Layout for Adding/Updating Note

Add activity_note.xml layout file to res/layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="match_parent"

android:orientation="vertical"

android:padding="15dp">

<EditText

android:id="@+id/edtTitle"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_marginTop="30dp"

android:hint="Java Sample Approach"

android:inputType="textPersonName" />

<EditText

android:id="@+id/edtContent"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_marginTop="20dp"

android:hint="Java technology, Spring Framework - approach to Java by Sample."

android:inputType="textMultiLine" />

<Button

android:id="@+id/btAdd"

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_marginTop="20dp"

android:text="Add" />

</LinearLayout>

2.4 Menu

Under res folder, create menu folder and add menu_main.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">

<item

android:id="@+id/addNote"

android:icon="@drawable/ic_add"

android:title="Add"

app:showAsAction="ifRoom" />

</menu>

3. Data Model

Under model package:

package com.javasampleapproach.kotlin.firebase.cloudfirestore.model

import java.util.HashMap

class Note {

var id: String? = null

var title: String? = null

var content: String? = null

constructor() {}

constructor(id: String, title: String, content: String) {

this.id = id

this.title = title

this.content = content

}

constructor(title: String, content: String) {

this.title = title

this.content = content

}

fun toMap(): Map<String, Any> {

val result = HashMap<String, Any>()

result.put("title", title!!)

result.put("content", content!!)

return result

}

4. ViewHolder

Under viewholder package, create RecyclerView.ViewHolder subclass:

package com.javasampleapproach.kotlin.firebase.cloudfirestore.viewholder

import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView

import android.view.View

import android.widget.ImageView

import android.widget.TextView

import com.javasampleapproach.kotlin.firebase.cloudfirestore.R

class NoteViewHolder(view: View) : RecyclerView.ViewHolder(view) {

var title: TextView

var content: TextView

var edit: ImageView

var delete: ImageView

init {

title = view.findViewById(R.id.tvTitle)

content = view.findViewById(R.id.tvContent)

edit = view.findViewById(R.id.ivEdit)

delete = view.findViewById(R.id.ivDelete)

}

5. Activity

5.1 Main Activity

package com.javasampleapproach.kotlin.firebase.cloudfirestore

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity

import android.os.Bundle

import android.content.Intent

import android.support.v7.widget.DefaultItemAnimator

import android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager

import android.util.Log

import android.view.*

import android.widget.Toast

import com.google.firebase.firestore.EventListener

import com.google.firebase.firestore.FirebaseFirestore

import com.google.firebase.firestore.ListenerRegistration

import com.javasampleapproach.kotlin.firebase.cloudfirestore.model.Note

import kotlinx.android.synthetic.main.activity_main.*

import com.firebase.ui.firestore.FirestoreRecyclerAdapter

import com.firebase.ui.firestore.FirestoreRecyclerOptions

import com.google.firebase.firestore.FirebaseFirestoreException

import com.javasampleapproach.kotlin.firebase.cloudfirestore.viewholder.NoteViewHolder

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

private val TAG = "MainActivity"

private var adapter: FirestoreRecyclerAdapter<Note, NoteViewHolder>? = null

private var firestoreDB: FirebaseFirestore? = null

private var firestoreListener: ListenerRegistration? = null

private var notesList = mutableListOf<Note>()

override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)

setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)

firestoreDB = FirebaseFirestore.getInstance()

val mLayoutManager = LinearLayoutManager(applicationContext)

rvNoteList.layoutManager = mLayoutManager

rvNoteList.itemAnimator = DefaultItemAnimator()

loadNotesList()

firestoreListener = firestoreDB!!.collection("notes")

.addSnapshotListener(EventListener { documentSnapshots, e ->

if (e != null) {

Log.e(TAG, "Listen failed!", e)

return@EventListener

}

notesList = mutableListOf()

for (doc in documentSnapshots) {

val note = doc.toObject(Note::class.java)

note.id = doc.id

notesList.add(note)

}

adapter!!.notifyDataSetChanged()

rvNoteList.adapter = adapter

})

}

override fun onDestroy() {

super.onDestroy()

firestoreListener!!.remove()

}

private fun loadNotesList() {

val query = firestoreDB!!.collection("notes")

val response = FirestoreRecyclerOptions.Builder<Note>()

.setQuery(query, Note::class.java)

.build()

adapter = object : FirestoreRecyclerAdapter<Note, NoteViewHolder>(response) {

override fun onBindViewHolder(holder: NoteViewHolder, position: Int, model: Note) {

val note = notesList[position]

holder.title.text = note.title

holder.content.text = note.content

holder.edit.setOnClickListener { updateNote(note) }

holder.delete.setOnClickListener { deleteNote(note.id!!) }

}

override fun onCreateViewHolder(parent: ViewGroup, viewType: Int): NoteViewHolder {

val view = LayoutInflater.from(parent.context)

.inflate(R.layout.item_note, parent, false)

return NoteViewHolder(view)

}

override fun onError(e: FirebaseFirestoreException?) {

Log.e("error", e!!.message)

}

adapter!!.notifyDataSetChanged()

rvNoteList.adapter = adapter

}

public override fun onStart() {

super.onStart()

adapter!!.startListening()

}

public override fun onStop() {

super.onStop()

adapter!!.stopListening()

}

private fun updateNote(note: Note) {

val intent = Intent(this, NoteActivity::class.java)

intent.putExtra("UpdateNoteId", note.id)

intent.putExtra("UpdateNoteTitle", note.title)

intent.putExtra("UpdateNoteContent", note.content)

startActivity(intent)

}

private fun deleteNote(id: String) {

firestoreDB!!.collection("notes")

.document(id)

.delete()

.addOnCompleteListener {

Toast.makeText(applicationContext, "Note has been deleted!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()

}

override fun onCreateOptionsMenu(menu: Menu): Boolean {

menuInflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu)

return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu)

}

override fun onOptionsItemSelected(item: MenuItem?): Boolean {

if (item != null) {

if (item.itemId == R.id.addNote) {

val intent = Intent(this, NoteActivity::class.java)

startActivity(intent)

}

return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item)

}

5.2 Note Activity

package com.javasampleapproach.kotlin.firebase.cloudfirestore

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity

import android.os.Bundle

import android.util.Log

import android.widget.Toast

import com.google.firebase.firestore.FirebaseFirestore

import com.javasampleapproach.kotlin.firebase.cloudfirestore.model.Note

import kotlinx.android.synthetic.main.activity_note.*

class NoteActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

private val TAG = "AddNoteActivity"

private var firestoreDB: FirebaseFirestore? = null

internal var id: String = ""

override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)

setContentView(R.layout.activity_note)

firestoreDB = FirebaseFirestore.getInstance()

val bundle = intent.extras

if (bundle != null) {

id = bundle.getString("UpdateNoteId")

edtTitle.setText(bundle.getString("UpdateNoteTitle"))

edtContent.setText(bundle.getString("UpdateNoteContent"))

}

btAdd.setOnClickListener {

val title = edtTitle.text.toString()

val content = edtContent.text.toString()

if (title.isNotEmpty()) {

if (id.isNotEmpty()) {

updateNote(id, title, content)

} else {

addNote(title, content)

}

finish()

}

private fun updateNote(id: String, title: String, content: String) {

val note = Note(id, title, content).toMap()

firestoreDB!!.collection("notes")

.document(id)

.set(note)

.addOnSuccessListener {

Log.e(TAG, "Note document update successful!")

Toast.makeText(applicationContext, "Note has been updated!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()

}

.addOnFailureListener { e ->

Log.e(TAG, "Error adding Note document", e)

Toast.makeText(applicationContext, "Note could not be updated!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()

}

private fun addNote(title: String, content: String) {

val note = Note(title, content).toMap()

firestoreDB!!.collection("notes")

.add(note)

.addOnSuccessListener { documentReference ->

Log.e(TAG, "DocumentSnapshot written with ID: " + documentReference.id)

Toast.makeText(applicationContext, "Note has been added!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()

}

.addOnFailureListener { e ->

Log.e(TAG, "Error adding Note document", e)

Toast.makeText(applicationContext, "Note could not be added!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()

}

6. Android Manifest

Define NoteActivity class as an Android Activity:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

package="com.javasampleapproach.firebase.cloudfirestore">

<application...>

<intent-filter>

</intent-filter>

</activity>

</application>

</manifest>

IV. Source Code

KotlinFireStore-FirebaseUI-FirestoreRecyclerAdapter

By grokonez | January 11, 2018.

Last updated on July 13, 2018.

3 thoughts on “Kotlin Firestore example – CRUD Operations with FirebaseUI FirestoreRecyclerAdapter | Android”

ankit dubey says:
December 14, 2019 at 5:20 pm
In main activity, the line ‘adapter = object : FirestoreRecyclerAdapter(response)’ gives error of type mismatch. and in the code
‘ for (doc in documentSnapshots!!) {
val note = doc.toObject(Note::class.java)
note.id = doc.id
notesList.add(note)
} ‘ this – (note) also gives error of typemismatch. help me plz.
1. ankit dubey says:
  December 14, 2019 at 5:52 pm
  above errors are solved, now my application is crashing with the error – ‘NoClassDefFoundError: Failed resolution of: Lcom/google/firebase/firestore/QueryListenOptions;’
Akshatha Srinivas says:
December 16, 2019 at 5:40 am
I have a sort button, on click of which i need to change the query dynamically. How to achieve this?

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I. Technologies

II. Overview

1. Goal

2. Cloud Firestore

2.1 Add Firestore to Android App

2.2 Initialize & Reference

2.3 Add/Update/Get/Delete Data & Get Realtime Updates

3. FirebaseUI Firestore

3.1 Model and ViewHolder

3.2 FirestoreRecyclerAdapter subclass

3.3 RecyclerView

3.4 Dependency

4. Project Structure

II. Practice

1. Set up Project

2. Layout

2.1 Main Activity

2.2 Item Layout

2.3 Activity Layout for Adding/Updating Note

2.4 Menu

3. Data Model

4. ViewHolder

5. Activity

5.1 Main Activity

5.2 Note Activity

6. Android Manifest

IV. Source Code

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