firebase-database FirebaseRealtime database with Android Get value/s from firebase

Example

1. Create class and add imports to parse information:

import com.google.firebase.database.FirebaseDatabase;
import com.google.firebase.database.IgnoreExtraProperties;

//Declaration of firebase references
private DatabaseReference mDatabase;

//Declaration of firebase atributtes
public String uID;
public String username;
public String email;

@IgnoreExtraProperties
public class User {

    //Default constructor
    public User() {

        //Default constructor required for calls to DataSnapshot.getValue(User.class)
        mDatabase = FirebaseDatabase.getInstance().getReference();

        //...
    }

    //...
}

2. Add addListenerForSingleValueEvent() to our database reference:

//Add new imports
import com.google.firebase.database.DataSnapshot;
import com.google.firebase.database.DatabaseError;
import com.google.firebase.database.ValueEventListener;

//...

public void getUser(String uID){

    //The uID it's unique id generated by firebase database
    mDatabase.child("users").child(uID).addListenerForSingleValueEvent(
            new ValueEventListener () {
            @Override
            public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
                // ...
            }

            @Override
            public void onCancelled(DatabaseError databaseError) {
                // Getting Post failed, log a message
            }
    });
}

3. Inflate our class with firebase information in onDataChange() event:

        @Override
        public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {

            //Inflate class with dataSnapShot
            Users user = dataSnapshot.getValue(Users.class);

            //...
        }

4. Finally we can get diferent atributtes from firebase class as normally:

//User inflated
Users user = dataSnapshot.getValue(Users.class);

//Get information
this.uID = user.uID;
this.username = user.username;
this.email = user.email;

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Best practices

1. The firebase supports 32 different child levels, then is simple to write wrong a references, to evade this create a final private references:

//Declaration of firebase references
//...
final private DatabaseReference userRef = mDatabase.child("users").child("premium").child("normal").getRef();

//...

public void getUser(String uID){

    //Call our reference
    userRef.child(uID).addListenerForSingleValueEvent(
        new ValueEventListener () {
            @Override
            public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
                // ...
            }

            @Override
            public void onCancelled(DatabaseError databaseError) {
                // Getting Post failed, log a message
            }
    });
}

2. The onCancelled() event is called when the user doesn't have access this reference by database rules. Add pertinent code to control this exception if you need.

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