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I’m starting a new application that will have a server side PHP and client in Android another (at the moment, and then also probably iphone). The application will only be used from mobile customer applications ie not to be used by web. My question is what would be the best way to login to this mode of operation?
thank you very much
It sounds to me as if the server side will be some sort of API that opens up access to a users data. The easiest method would be sending along a stored username and password with each request. This would only work if the connection your using is secure (https) which brings in the hassle of obtaining an ssl certificate.
Another option would be using OAuth, though your use case seems a little bit different than the standard OAuth use-case. OAuth is a protocol that uses a token based system to establish a users permission to access certain data from an application by another application. In your case you would be in control of both the first and the second application (hence my remark on being different than the standard use-case) Read here for more info.