title: Save an EditText value into Firebase on Android
body: <p>I want to send a EditText (message) into the Firebase database. I can save a string but it does not work with a text area here is my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Map&lt;String, Object&gt; updates = new HashMap&lt;String, Object&gt;();
  updates.put("Your Message: ", textArea);
  f.setValue(updates);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So I want to save a text area to the Firebase database. I also want to know how I can send it to a specific entity for example.</p>
  
  <p>save at Name: mystring or at ID: myid if there is a way to use JSON. I am new to Firebase.</p>