Prerequisites

• Installed Git
• Registered Facebook Android App
• Registered Google Sign-In App for Android
• Installed Android Studio
• Installed MobileFirst development environment

Running the sample

Cloning the Git repository

• Clone this Git repository

• From the above repository you will need three folders:

  1. Social Login security check - The social login security check adapter.

  2. HelloSocialUser Adapter - The JAX-RS resource adapter which protect with the scope socialLogin.

  3. SocialLoginApp - The sample native android application.

Configuring the Android app

• string.xml

<resources>
    ...
    <string name="facebook_app_id">Put your Facebook app id here</string>
    <string name="google_server_client_id">Put your Google web client id here</string>
    ...
</resources>

• Open the Android app SocialLoginApp in Android Studio.
• Edit the file string.xml, there you need supply the following:

  • Facebook App ID from Facebook Apps Console

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  • Google Web Client ID from Google API Console.

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  • For the Google SignIn you also need to get the google-services.json file.

Register the application on IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation Server

• Ensure you have installed MobileFirst CLI
• Open your command line in the root of the Android project
• Register the app by typing mfpdev app register

Deploying the adapters

• IBM MobileFirst Platform gives you several options for deploying adapters.
• For each of the adapter above (Social Login security check and HelloSocialUser Adapter) do the following:
  • Open command line in the root folder of the adapter.
  • Run mfpdev adapter build
  • Run mfpdev adapter deploy

Configuring the adapters

• From your command line run mfpdev server console - this command will open your server console.
• From the Adapters menu click on Social Login Adapter, and move to Security Checks tab.
• Here you will find place to add your google client id. This id will use the adapter to validate the Google account.
• If you need to use the social platform token later on, set the keep original token attribute to be true.
• 

Running the application

• You can now back to your Android Studio and run the app.

Supported Levels

IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation 8.0

License

Copyright 2016 IBM Corp.

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