Burger

This is a Xamarin app demonstrating the social network authentication and logged-in user info retrieval with Microsoft Mobile App Service.

This app is inspired by Xamarin Evangelist, Ben Ishiyama-Levy during his talk at Microsoft Singapore about authenticating and authorizing users with Microsoft Azure Mobile Apps.

Project Objectives

• Understand how to login user to an Xamarin app via social network such as Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and Microsoft Live;
• Learn the deployment of Microsoft Azue Mobile Apps;
• Get updated with the new Mobile Apps after Microsoft plans to kill Azure Mobile Services in December 2016.

Technologies Used

• Xamarin.Android
• Azure App Service: Mobile App
• Facebook Graph
• Google+ APIs
• OAuth Scope
• Twitter
• Microsoft Live
• Azure Application Insights

Facebook	Google+	Twitter	Microsoft Live	Retrieving User Info

Fields to Customize

• BACKEND_APP_SERVICE_URL: Please setup one Azure App Service: Mobile App to get its URL. Put the URL in Burger/Resources/values.ApiKeys.xml;
• TwitterConsumerKey: Only applicable if the app is setup to allow logging in via Twitter. Put the value from Twitter Developer in burgerappService/web.config.
• TwitterConsumerSecret: Only applicable if the app is setup to allow logging in via Twitter. Put the value from Twitter Developer in burgerappService/web.config.
• InstrumentationKey: Only applicable if the app is using Azure Application Insights. Put the value in burgerappService/ApplicationInsights.config.

References

• Azure Mobile App Service - Get personal info of authenticated users
• Google+ Platform: Authorizing API requests
• OAuth2.0 Playground
• Authentication and authorization in Azure App Service