Authenticating with Facebook and Google providers
One common feature that most of the applications utilize is to allow you to log in with your favorite login provider. We will close this chapter learning how you can leverage the Xamarin.Auth plugin to connect and authenticate two of the most famous login providers, Facebook and Google, to save your users from registering and using custom login steps, and to save your application from extra work in the backend and frontend tiers.
How to do it...
- In Xamarin Studio or Visual Studio, create a new cross-platform project; if you don't remember how to, check the Creating a cross-platform solution recipe in this chapter. Name it
XamFormsAuthenticateProviders. - Add the plugin in the iOS and Android projects, ...
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