Authenticating Users with Flutter and Firebase REST API

Using the Firebase REST API in Flutter: A Complete Guide

Firebase is a powerful platform for building mobile and web applications. It provides a variety of services, including authentication, cloud storage, and real-time databases, to help you build robust and scalable apps.

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to use the Firebase REST API to authenticate users in a Flutter app. We’ll start by setting up a Firebase project and creating a REST API key. Then, we’ll use the http package to send HTTP requests to the Firebase API and handle the response.

1. Setting up Firebase

To get started, you’ll need to create a Firebase project and enable the Authentication service. You can do this by following the steps in the Firebase documentation.

Once you’ve set up your Firebase project, you’ll need to create a REST API key to use with the Firebase API. To do this, go to the Firebase console and navigate to the “Project Settings” page.

On the “Project Settings” page, click on the “Service Accounts” tab, and then click on the “Generate new private key” button to download the API key file. Save this file in a secure location, as it contains sensitive information that you’ll use to authenticate your API requests.