Getting a specific category of data from firebase

Otema :

I would like to categorize data in a Firebase realtime database and then select them by category to be displayed in different sections of my android views but I don't know where to start. I am new to Firebase all I know is how to pull data, push to Firebase db and display all the data fetched.

My question is: is this possible and if yes how can I go about it? Thanks

Peter Haddad :

If you have this database:

Animals
   randomId
       name: dog
       category: mammal
   randomId
       name: snake
       category: reptile
   randomId
       name: elephants
       category: mammal

Then you can query by category:

DatabaseReference ref=FirebaseDatabase.getInstance().getReference("Animals");
Query query=ref.orderByChild("category").equalTo("mammal");

 query.addListenerForSingleValueEvent(new ValueEventListener() {
   @Override
public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
  for(DataSnapshot datas: dataSnapshot.getChildren()){
     String name=datas.child("name").getValue().toString();
    }
  }
   @Override
public void onCancelled(DatabaseError databaseError) {
     }
  });

This way you will retrieve all the names where category is equal to mammal.

Check here also:

https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/android/lists-of-data