Authentication mechanism in Android?

Question

I am not basically an android developer. I am a dot net developer, If someone provides me some details on

How to authenticate and manage the user credentials with android apps.

consider the bellow.

• I have user credentials in SQL database.
• How to authenticate the user
• How to manage the remember password for the later usage.

Can someone give some guidelines ?

Answer 1

I have user credentials in SQL database. How to authenticate the user

For giving Signin functionality mostly username and password are sent in Base64 String for security. I dont know how they are done on server side but we generally do like this to authenticate user credentials and web service returns response like id of that user. Try this link

How to manage the remember password for the later usage.

This is what you will need for that SharedPreferences

check this question:

how to implement Remember me function in login of android Activity?

Answer 2

Designing for Security. Have a look at here