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Flutter — Microsoft API Management secured with AD — MSAL for Android

This is the fifth part of a mini series to show how to secure your Flutter applications using Microsoft technologies:

1. Web API — Setting up your Web API with Visual Studio.
2. APIM Service — Creating an API management service in Azure.
3. Secure Gateway — Securing requests through the API gateway.
4. MSAL — Authenticating your Flutter app on iOS.
5. MSAL — Authenticating your Flutter app on Android.
6. MSAL — Authenticating your Flutter app on the Web.
7. Hosted API — Hosting your Web API’s in Azure.
8. Secure Hosted API — Secure requests with the APIM Gateway

In this article we show how to get an access token by authenticating against an Azure AD on an Android phone or tablet.

Step 1: Declare MSAL as a dependency

Add the following entries to your app gradle android/app/src/build.gradle:

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.microsoft.identity.client:msal:3.0.+'
}