Mobile apps authenticated with cookies

Question

I don't have much experience with authentication for mobile apps.

I am using Play framework as backend. Play supports cookie-session authentication, which is great because it keeps the server stateless. Can this mechanism apply to mobile apps (native, no web views) as well?

Answer 1

I can only speak for android as I have never developed for ios.

In Android all you have to do is enable Cookies for your URLConnections. See here or search yourself. Questions to this can be easily found as there are a lot.