From the course: Unity: Working with Google Firebase

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Authentication options overview

Authentication options overview

From the course: Unity: Working with Google Firebase

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Authentication options overview

- [Instructor] There are a few different ways that we can go about authenticating our players with Firebase Auth. Go ahead and click on the Docs tab, scroll down to the Unity section and select the Get Started Guide. Under the Develop tab on the left hand side of the screen, expand the Authentication section. As you can see there are a lot of options, email and password, Google, Github, Facebook, Twitter, custom systems, anonymous auth, and finally being able to have your players authenticate and register themselves with multiple providers and have their accounts linked. For this course we're going to be focusing on email and password verification. The social login options all follow the same user flow, namely install the appropriate social SDK, get an access token, and sign-in to Firebase using that as a credential. For linking multiple auth options, Firebase has made it pretty easy so revisit the Docs here when you need that functionality. As a final note, if you want to onboard…

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