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Android Receiving Realtime Messages with Firebase

Andrew Souza
Andrew Souza
70 Points
Posted by Andrew Souza
Andrew Souza
70 Points

a problem with messagesReferance.

My Android Studio says it "Cannot resolve symbol 'messagesReferance' "

1 Answer

Jeff Vig
Jeff Vig
16,345 Points
Jeff Vig
Jeff Vig
16,345 Points

The reference he was using was created in the code above.

//    TODO Get a reference to the "messages" node of your Firebase
    DatabaseReference messages = firebase.getReference(MESSAGES_FIREBASE_KEY);

The reference was called messages, not messagesReference. So it should look like 

messages.addChildEventListener(this);