Cognito

Cognito

Amplify and Cognito

The Amplify Auth category provides an interface for authenticating a user. Behind the scenes, it provides the necessary authorization to the other Amplify categories. It comes with default, built-in support for Amazon Cognito User Pool and Identity Pool. The Amplify CLI helps you to create and configure the auth category with an authentication provider.

cognito

Prerequisites

  • An Android application targeting at least Android SDK API level 16 with Amplify libraries integrated.

Configure Auth Category

  1. amplify add auth : we use this command to To start provisioning auth resources in the backend, after that you will see this screen.
? Do you want to use the default authentication and security configuration?
    `Default configuration`
? How do you want users to be able to sign in?
    `Username`
? Do you want to configure advanced settings?
    `No, I am done.`
  1. then we do the amplify push to push the changes to the cloude.

dependencies for cognito

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.amplifyframework:aws-auth-cognito:1.24.0'
}

Initialize Amplify Auth

// Add this line, to include the Auth plugin.
Amplify.addPlugin(new AWSCognitoAuthPlugin());
Amplify.configure(getApplicationContext());

 

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