From the course: Building Android Apps with AWS

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Set up user sign in on AWS

Set up user sign in on AWS

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Set up user sign in on AWS

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- [Instructor] In this lesson, we're going to be taking the first step to add some user authentication to our ListMaker app. So I'm gonna start here at the AWS Mobile Hub. I'm gonna select my ListMaker-Android app that we created. Then I'm gonna scroll down here to where it says Add More Backend Features, and I'm gonna select User Sign-In. You can see that it's powered by Amazon Cognito. Amazon Cognito is the name of the service that handles user authentication, so before we proceed, I'm just gonna quickly take a look at the Amazon Cognito homepage. This page is gonna have all the info that's available regarding Amazon Cognito. Obviously, in this demo app we're just gonna be scratching the surface of everything that's available. But one thing I do want to point out is the Resources tab. I'm gonna click on Resources, and if I scroll down, this is where you're gonna find all of the documentation for Amazon Cognito. They have additional sample apps here and tutorials, so if you need any…

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