= Solution
The <Leray-Schauder fixed point theorem> says that a continuous compact map $T$ on a <Banach space> has a fixed point if the homotopy set
$$
\{u:u=tT(u)\text{ for some }0\leq t\leq1\}
$$
is bounded. If $u=tT(u)$ with $t>0$, multiplying the equation for $T(u)$ by $t$ shows that $u$ solves
$$
\bar a^{ij}(x,u,Du)D_{ij}u+t\bar b(x,u,Du)=0
\quad\text{in }\Omega,
\qquad u=t\varphi\quad\text{on }\partial\Omega.
$$
The case $t=0$ gives $u=0$. Therefore it is enough to prove one uniform $C^{1,\beta}$ estimate for all solutions of this family and all $t\in[0,1]$. The theorem then yields a fixed point $u=T(u)$, which solves the original quasilinear problem.
Initially the construction gives $u\in C^{2,\alpha\beta}$. This makes $u$ and $Du$ Lipschitz, so composing the original $C^{0,\alpha}$ coefficients with the jet of $u$ produces $C^{0,\alpha}$ coefficients. A second application of the <Global Schauder estimate> gives $u\in C^{2,\alpha}(\overline\Omega)$. The fixed-point theorem is an existence result and supplies no uniqueness.
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