Chapter 8
Concepts in Action: Part 2
In this chapter, as in Chapter 4, we will take a closer look at source code and applications that implement some of the theoretical concepts we’ve discussed. This will give you a better feeling for how to apply them in practice. This chapter’s code examples will focus on secure authentication and safeguarding passwords on the device. Recall that we’ve discussed two mechanisms of logging in to back-end applications without storing credentials on the device. Here, we will explore more detailed source code related to that.
OAuth
Let’s revisit the OAuth login example covered in Chapter 6. We discussed developing an application that will interact with Google Picasa Web Albums to read off a list of albums from ...
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