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How to use xamarin with auth0 for android?


Asked by Emely Burnett on Dec 15, 2021 Android



In this tutorial, we will learn how to use Xamarin together with the Auth0 OpenID Connect (OIDC) Client for .NET library to enable authentication in our iOS and Android mobile applications. User authentication is a part of almost every application.
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We will go back to Auth0 dashboard to define our Xamarin app as a client application which has access rights to our API. Users can only login via a valid client. To add our new application, we are selecting Applications from left side menu and clicking to Create Application button.
Moreover, Auth0.Android is a client-side library you can use with your Android app to authenticate users and access Auth0 APIs.
Besides,
Great official documentation for Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS is available. In the end, we get a fully native mobile application after compilation, so performance is comparable with the performance of apps created using traditional methods.
In respect to this,
As mentioned, access to the Azure Function will be secured by Auth0. As such, users have to authenticate in the Xamarin Forms application to then send requests with the access_token to the function. Here, OpenID Connect will be used to verify user identity and, once it's confirmed, a response with greeting will be returned.