Social Media Authentication – Google login in Xamarin Forms

This is the third article of the series about Social Media Authentication. In the previous one, I showed how to integrate Instagram authentication. In this one, we will be integrating Google login in a Xamarin Forms application.

Here the order of the series:

• Article 1: Facebook
• Article 2: Instagram
• Article 3: Google
• Article 4: Twitter
• Article 5: Microsoft
• Article 6: LinkedIn

Google authentication

To do this integration we will be using the Plugin.GoogleClient.

The result will look like this:

Let’s start:

1-Firebase portal setup

Few months ago we wrote a detailed guide of how to set up you can follow it step by step here.

2-Install the Plugin.GoogleClient

3-Add the Android/iOS platform configurations 

In your Android project, add these configurations.

In your iOS project, add these configurations.

4-Add the authentication logic in your forms project 

You can check the full source code here.

Happy google integration!