Firebase: How to keep an Android user logged in?

Question

I\'m using Firebase SimpleLogin to enable Email / Password authentication. Creation of users and subsequent login is all working fine. However, whenever I leave the app (even if

Answer 1

[Engineer at Firebase] In order to transparently handle persistent sessions in the Firebase Simple Login Java client, you need to use the two-argument constructor which accepts an Android context, i.e. SimpleLogin(com.firebase.client.Firebase ref, android.content.Context context) every time you instantiate the Simple Login Java client.

See https://www.firebase.com/docs/java-simple-login-api/javadoc/com/firebase/simplelogin/SimpleLogin.html for the full API reference.