How to delete firebase items that are “expired” or past the current date on Android Studio?

Question

Hello I am creating an Android app that lists local events happening around my campus. Each \"event\" has children for storing the title, image, category, info, and date. I was

Answer 1

You can filter the fire base response on date itself

ex:

DatabaseReference mDatabaseReference =FirebaseDatabase.getInstance().getReference().child("table name");
ref.orderByChild("date").startAt(startDate).endAt(endDate).on("child_added", function(snapshot){
console.log("got the data!", snapshot);
});