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Register Azure backend with Google API console

Register Azure backend with Google API console

From the course: Building Android Apps with Azure

Register Azure backend with Google API console

- [Instructor] Many mobile apps need to know the identity of a user. Knowing a users identity allows an app to securely save user data in the Cloud and provide the same personalized experience across all of the users devices. Azure supports different authentication providers. From the dashboard let's select bookmark app and from the second column of side menus let's go and select under app services. Under settings let's select authentication and authorization. Now let's turn on app service authentication. Once we do that we can see different options to authenticate with. There are several authentication providers. There is one from Facebook, one from Google, Twitter, Microsoft, and also Azure Active Directory. Note to that if we wish to control who has access to our mobile backend we can select Azure AAD as our auth provider and use Microsoft's AAD services to manage our users. For the purposes of this course we're going to use Google as our authentication provider. We're going to…

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