About
OVERVIEW
SocialAuth is a popular authentication library for Java and Android. The power of SocialAuth lies in the facility it provides to both an application’s users and its developers. For users, it means pre-existing credentials can be tapped to log in to an application and share content. For developers, it means the ability to authenticate users with minimal development effort and transitive dependencies.
MOTIVATION
The motivation behind creating SocialAuth was the need to have a reusable library for user authentication that worked across a number of different languages and platforms. Having been originally developed for Java web applications, SocialAuth has since been extended to Android, WordPress, and .NET. As users have an increasing number of connected accounts already, it has become imperative for products to allow users to sign in and use products without needing to create new accounts. If you’ve ever used Single sign-on, that’s what SocialAuth provides.
THE VALUE OF SOCIALAUTH
SocialAuth provides value to end users, application developers, and site owners. The value of SocialAuth includes:
- The ability for users of a site or application to log in to a service using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, Yahoo, Instagram, and other popular services.
- Allows users to share status updates to multiple platforms at once.
- Ability for users to pull in contacts from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, Yahoo, and more.
- Allows users to send emails or text messages from native email and messaging clients.
TECHNOLOGY
There are two different versions of SocialAuth available. The original SocialAuth is written in Java for web applications. SocialAuth for Android is an Android version of the original Java library.