Professional iOS Chat App with Social Login using Firebase 3

I would give 5 stars however at the end of the course the instructor says "We will clean / refactor the code in the next lecture" however that lecture does not exist. Now bit of feedback. Personally would've separated the database logic into seperate swift files, instead of having all logic inside the chat view controller. Think it's slightly mis-leading when you say become a Firebase Expert when all you do is write to two tables and store some values in storage... Firebase has so much more to offer I'm afraid so id say this is very basic firebase exposure. I tend to follow the DRY principe (Don't Repeat Yourself) there are some code snippets which the instructor copied and pasted to only change one given field, personally the same code could've been reused if a bit of thought was put into it instead of rushing to the end. The explanations are good, very detailed and easy to understand. Would happily purchase another course from you i.e the instagram one... ?

NOTE: Written at the end of the course. Would I buy it again? Oh yes. Why? Because I got a working Firebase Chat App, albeit at a prototype level. Will I buy their next course? Absolutely. Why? The code worked and they spoke native English (after a long day's work a difficult accent just gives me a headache). Moreover, they are articulate and fun to listen to. Will I buy their Instagram course? Yes. With the quality I've seen here, I know it will be a great investment (can't afford it this month though). I value people who invest themselve into what they do, people that show passion and the authors go truly beyond what is expected. Answering questions is the main reason why I give Udemy, and people like these two authors, my money. One needs a mentor, or at least a helping hand. The code is good. This cannot be said of all courses. Should you buy their course? Yes, wait, you still reading this? This course will teach you how to use Firebase in a functional without getting too involved in the fan-out solutions. They are good to listen to and their stuff works. So if you want to learn in a pleasant way after a hard days' work, you're in the right place. If you want to build the next snapChat or major app, you will need their Instagram course at least and maybe a few others. Rome wasn't built in a day... Now, my two cents... once you finish this course, start from scratch and do your own chat app changing things slightly. This is called reflection, and this is how we learn really well something: practice.

Very concise tutorial for using Firebase with Swift to write a real time chat app. The examples aren't updated yet for Swift 3, but it should be fine if you're already familiar with Swift 2 and 3.

The Zipfile containing the Resources didn't have all of the files used in the tutorial (e.g., the background image, and the google.png file). The commentary is actually pretty good and enlightening. The major obstacle I'm running onto is that the course content was written prior to Swift 3, and as a Swift Newbie it was hard working through the Swift 2 source code to get everything working with the Swift 3 compiler.