Hands on Xamarin Platform Pipeline - Develop - Add authentication using Azure Active Directory

After creating an offline application following the previous post.

Now, we will start convert our offline application to a connected one using Microsoft Azure tools. In this post we'll add authentication using Azure Active Directory.

Application Creation on Azure Active Directory

To do this, login to https://manage.windowsazure.com and in case you don't have Azure Subscription a trial can be requested. Then, click on Active Directory as shown in the image below.

Select an Active Directory, navigate to Applications tab, click ‘Add‘ button then select ‘Add an application my organization is developing‘.

Choose an application name and make sure to select ‘Native Client Application‘ as type of application.

On the final screen, provide the ‘Redirect URI‘ then validate the application creation.

Once the app is created, navigate to ‘Configure‘ tab then write down the ‘Client ID’ that we’ll use later.

User Creation on Active Directory

In Active Directory main screen, navigate to Users tab, click on Add User button then chose a user name, in my case the user name shall be: test@anasehhotmail.onmicrosoft.com

Fill in some information about the user.

At the last step generate a temporary password that we can use for the first authentication in order to chose the final password.

Update the mobile Application

Add the package named Azure Active Directory Authentication Library (Azure ADAL) to the application.

Add a button to the Main.axml layout, we can use the Android graphical designer.

In the MainActivity class add the following constants.

Now, invoke the authentication process then save the result to authResult variable.

Finally, override the OnActivityResult method to get the authentication result.

Below some screenshots.

 

Complete source code can be found on Github.

See you soon!