Integrating Google Sign-in into Your Android Application
Takeaway from this article
In this article, you’re going to learn how to authenticate users via Google Sign-in using the Google sign-in API. By the end of this article you’ll be able to authenticate the user and extract basic profile details like display name, email, etc. I’ll link the github link at the end of the article, feel free to play with it.
Introduction
In this modern era of mobile usage, every application needs to authenticate the user for one or other purpose. When it comes to authenticating the users there will be several things that mobile developers are not aware.
That’s when the mighty social logins come handy. Social login is a WIN-WIN for both users and mobile developers. Developers don’t need to go through the whole authentication mechanism, whereas user can sign-in with less friction.
When it comes to android there might be an android user who don’t have Facebook or Twitter but not G-mail. What better reason do you need to authenticate the users via Google Sign-in.
Prerequisites
- To test the Google Sign-in you need an android device with version 4.1 or above.
- The device google play services version should be 15.0.0 or…
