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pretty straightforward question. im making an android app that uses firebase authentication for users to connect with email and password an also the firebase realtime database service.

i wanted to know if i can check through android studio how many people are currently connected to my database(through Firebase Authentication)

thanks in advance!

It's very simple. Every time a user is connecting to your app, add him in a Firebase category, named users. Than you can query on that category to see the exact number of users like this: int numberOfUsers = dataSnapshot.getChildrenCount();. Hope it helps.

var database = firebase.database();

// connecting users
var connectionsRef = database.ref("/connections");

var connectedRef = database.ref(".info/connected");
// Number of online users is the number of objects in the presence list.

// When the client's connection state changes...
connectedRef.on("value", function(snap) 

 // If they are connected..
 if (snap.val()) 

 // Add user to the connections list.
 var con = connectionsRef.push(true);

 // Remove user from the connection list when they disconnect.
 con.onDisconnect().remove();
 
);

// When first loaded or when the connections list changes...
connectionsRef.on("value", function(snapshot) {

 // Display the viewer count in the html.
 // The number of online users is the number of children in the connections list.
 console.log("numers of players are:"+ snapshot.numChildren());
 $(".displayDiv").text(snapshot.numChildren());