How to allow only my app to access firebase without a login?

android firebase firebase-realtime-database firebase-authentication

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Solution 1

Enable Anonymous sing-in provider under Sing-in Method under Authentication tab in your Firebase Console and use firebase anonymous authentication

Solution 2

Firebase Real-Time DB does not allow access to Un-Authorized Users.

Making the Firebase Database Rules true for Read & Write is not the way as (Chintan Soni) said.

So a Authentication mechanism is the best way!

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Updated on June 04, 2022

Comments

Sourav Kanta almost 2 years

I am storing my app's data on Firebase and this being my first project on Firebase is proving to be much more difficult than I thought. I have gone through the official documentation and it says that we can login a user with their email and password or use other login options like Google or Facebook etc. However I don't want user's to login to my application but only read and write data to firebase if they are using my app. Right now I am using public rules for my firebase but then anyone with a reference to my firebase URL can read and write to the database. How do I overcome this?

Thanks in advance.
- finki almost 8 years
  
  What about using anonymous authentication? firebase.google.com/docs/auth/android/anonymous-auth
- Chintan Soni almost 8 years
  
  You have already introduced a major threat by making rules Public. Best way to overcome this is to implement Authentication. Period.
- Avinesh over 7 years
  
  @finki what is difference between anonymous authentication and public.
Shohrab almost 7 years

even if user doesn't have any application key?
Zar E Ahmer almost 7 years

Does firebase alows an app to publish with read ,write access without login(authentication)
Veeresh Charantimath almost 7 years

you can use anonymous login
atrujillofalcon about 6 years

A firebase database can be public. All depends of auth rules.
Odin almost 6 years

This approach is for testing purposes only. It's a big security violation if used in production; anyone can read/write your database.
Haroun Hajem about 5 years

This should not be used in production.
Shafqat Kamal about 4 years

i am facing an issue using firebase anonymous authentication. Can you help me with that?
Shafqat Kamal about 4 years

I implemented auth into my android app also i have set rules in firebase to protect my firebase project from other app users. But still its not working.