Authentication for mobile devices

Deep Shah

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Apr 22, 2016, 9:09:13 AM4/22/16

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I am new to Django. I want to know how will authentication work on mobile apps. How do I keep the user logged in on my mobile apps and not make them login every time? Is there any in-built method to save a token or something?

Steven Crockett

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Apr 22, 2016, 10:41:29 AM4/22/16

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If you are writing a native app, and using Django as a backend web service, there is no built-in library within django, as far as I know.

I have used https://github.com/jpulgarin/django-tokenapi with some success. It is rather secure as long as you are using https in production.

Chris Bartos

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Dec 27, 2016, 4:54:26 PM12/27/16

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Hi Deep,

In order to authenticate on mobile applications, you'll need to create an REST API and authenticate using Token Authentication or OAuth2 Authentication (Social Media: Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.). How Token Authentication works is you will create an REST API on a Secure HTTP site with a route to a built-in view that sends the user's token. You can keep the Token saved for the duration of the session within the mobile app and it will prevent the user from logging out.

I hope that works!

Chris

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