I want to know how can I authenticate a user on an android app using a RAILS web service… and how to store his/her credentials for further use
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I want to know how can I authenticate a user on an android app using a RAILS web service… and how to store his/her credentials for further use
The standard way is that you can use build rest API’s using rails that would authenticate a given set of credentials. Then you can call this API using standard HTTP requests and store the tokens in many different secure ways.
Here’s a good project I found which implements another method to authenticate users of an android app using rails:
http://www.strukturedkaos.com/2011/09/19/soup-to-nuts-token-authentication-for-android-using-rails-3-devise/
Here’s another great thread on this site discussing another solution:
What can I use to allow an android app to communicate with a rails app