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How to Change Password of User in Android using

Firebase?
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12 Mar, 2021

In many apps, we got a feature to login using our email and password. Sometimes it

happens that we forget the password and most of the time there reset our password.

Here we are going to implement the same feature to Reset our password using

Firebase Authentication. You may refer to the following ar ticle User authentication

using Firebase in Android. A sample video is given below to get an idea about what we

are going to do in this ar ticle. Note that we are going to implement this project using

the Java language. 

00:00 00:57

Step by Step Implementation

Step 1: Working with the UI par t

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    tools:context=".LoginActivity">
  
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    <include
        android:id="@+id/login_toolbar"
        layout="@layout/app_bar_layout" />
  
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_marginStart="19dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="96dp"
        android:textSize="25dp"
        android:text="Login to Your Account" />
  
    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/logemail"
        android:layout_width="267dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_marginStart="36dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="198dp"
        android:ems="10"
        android:hint="Email"
        android:inputType="textEmailAddress" />
  
    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/logpass"
        android:layout_width="259dp"
        android:layout_height="58dp"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_marginStart="32dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="261dp"
        android:ems="10"
        android:hint="Password"
        android:inputType="textPassword" />
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        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
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        android:id="@+id/forgetpass"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
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        android:layout_marginTop="351dp"
        android:text="Forget Password"/>
    <Button
        android:id="@+id/logbut"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_marginStart="222dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="387dp"
        android:background="@color/colorPrimary"
        android:text="Login"
        android:textSize="15dp" />
  
</RelativeLayout>

Step 2: Working with the LoginActivity.java file

Go to the LoginActivity.java file and refer to the following code. Below is the code for

the LoginActivity.java file 

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import androidx.annotation.NonNull;
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;
import androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar;
  
import android.app.AlertDialog;
import android.app.ProgressDialog;
import android.content.DialogInterface;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.text.InputType;
import android.text.TextUtils;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;
  
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import com.google.android.gms.tasks.OnCompleteListener;
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import com.google.android.gms.tasks.OnFailureListener;
import com.google.android.gms.tasks.Task;
import com.google.firebase.auth.AuthResult;
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import com.google.firebase.auth.FirebaseAuth;
  
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public class LoginActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
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    private EditText memail;
    private EditText mpass;
    private FirebaseAuth mAuth;
    private Toolbar mtoolbar;
    private Button login;
    TextView forgetpass;
    public ProgressDialog loginprogress;
    
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_login);
        
        mtoolbar=(Toolbar)findViewById(R.id.login_toolbar);
        setSupportActionBar(mtoolbar);
        
        mAuth = FirebaseAuth.getInstance();
        getSupportActionBar().setTitle("Login");
        
        forgetpass=findViewById(R.id.forgetpass);
        getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
        loginprogress=new ProgressDialog(this);
        memail=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.logemail);
        mpass=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.logpass);
        
        // click on forget password text 
        forgetpass.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                showRecoverPasswordDialog();
            }
        });
        
        login=(Button)findViewById(R.id.logbut);
        login.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                String email=memail.getText().toString();
                String password =mpass.getText().toString();
                if(!TextUtils.isEmpty(email)||!TextUtils.isEmpty(password))
                    loginprogress.setTitle("Logging In");
                    loginprogress.setMessage("Please Wait ");
                    loginprogress.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(false);
                    loginprogress.show();
                    loginUser(email,password);
                }
            }
        });
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    ProgressDialog loadingBar;
    
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    private void showRecoverPasswordDialog() {
        AlertDialog.Builder builder=new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
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        final EditText emailet= new EditText(this);
          
        // write the email using which you registered
        emailet.setText("Email");
        emailet.setMinEms(16);
        emailet.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_EMAIL_ADDRESS);
        linearLayout.addView(emailet);
        linearLayout.setPadding(10,10,10,10);
        builder.setView(linearLayout);
          
        // Click on Recover and a email will be sent to your registered ema
        builder.setPositiveButton("Recover", new DialogInterface.OnClickLis
            @Override
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                String emaill=emailet.getText().toString().trim();
                beginRecovery(emaill);
            }
        });
        
        builder.setNegativeButton("Cancel", new DialogInterface.OnClickList
            @Override
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                dialog.dismiss();
            }
        });
        builder.create().show();
    }
    
    private void beginRecovery(String emaill) {
        loadingBar=new ProgressDialog(this);
        loadingBar.setMessage("Sending Email....");
        loadingBar.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(false);
        loadingBar.show();
          
        // calling sendPasswordResetEmail
        // open your email and write the new 
        // password and then you can login
        mAuth.sendPasswordResetEmail(emaill).addOnCompleteListener(new OnCo
            @Override
            public void onComplete(@NonNull Task<Void> task) {
                loadingBar.dismiss();
                if(task.isSuccessful())
                { 
                    // if isSuccessful then done messgae will be shown 
                    // and you can change the password
                    Toast.makeText(LoginActivity.this,"Done sent",Toast.LEN
                }
                else {
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            @Override
            public void onFailure(@NonNull Exception e) {
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                Toast.makeText(LoginActivity.this,"Error Failed",Toast.LENG
            }
        });
    }
    public void loginUser(String email,String password){
        mAuth.signInWithEmailAndPassword(email,password).addOnCompleteListe
            @Override
            public void onComplete(@NonNull Task<AuthResult> task) {
                if(task.isSuccessful()){
                    loginprogress.dismiss();
                    Intent mainIntent = new Intent(LoginActivity.this,MainA
                    mainIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK|Inten
                    startActivity(mainIntent);
                    finish();
                } else {
                    loginprogress.hide();
                    Toast.makeText(LoginActivity.this,"Cannot Sign In..Plae
                }
            }
        });
    }
}

Output :

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GitHub link : https://github.com/Anni1123/LoginDemo

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