What is the correct way to populate a list from Firebase?

Question

From my research, it looks like a FirebaseRecyclerAdapter is the correct way to populate a list of items, but I can't seem to get the FirebaseRecyclerAdapter setup. I have added the dependencies shown below, but when I try to create the FirebaseRecyclerAdapter the solution says it can't recognize the symbol FirebaseRecyclerAdapter.

dependencies {
compile fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')
testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-database:9.6.0'
compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-core:9.6.0'
compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-auth:9.6.0'
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:24.1.1'
compile 'com.android.support:design:24.1.1'
compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:24.1.1'
compile 'com.firebase:firebase-client:2.2.4'}

Answer 1

You need to import FirebaseUI if you are trying to use FirebaseRecyclerAdapter.

compile 'com.firebaseui:firebase-ui:0.6.0'

Add that to your dependencies and try it again.

Alternatively, if you only want a specific library from FirebaseUI, you can import the specific one:

compile 'com.firebaseui:firebase-ui-database:0.6.0'

compile 'com.firebaseui:firebase-ui-auth:0.6.0'

compile 'com.firebaseui:firebase-ui-storage:0.6.0'

Then remember to use:

import com.firebase.ui.database.FirebaseRecyclerAdapter;

to each module using it (Android Studio will most likely catch this if you don't)