I am working on a school project and have elected to use Firebase as a storage option for uploading/downloading files via an app that I am developing. I would like to be able to display to the user a list of all the files within a specific folder, and also give that user the ability to upload files. However, it seems that the only way to access information within the firebase storage, is to, as the developer, know what the file is rather than find files and display them dynamically. I hope I am making sense with this.
Basically, I would like my app to access the firebase storage, go to a specified folder, and then create a bunch of image-buttons in a viewgroup based off of what is in the folder without having to know before hand what to expect.
Would this be possible via metadata? As in, when ever a new file/folder is created within this parent folder, could I also programmatically update that parent folder's metadata to say, "hey there are these specific files within this folder?"