In my opinion, there’s a drawback when using the LinkedIn iOS SDK: The official LinkedIn app must be installed to the device, otherwise the signing in and authorization process isn’t going to work.There are explicit steps described in LinkedIn website regarding the LinkedIn iOS SDK, so I’m not really sure if a tutorial on the same topic would make any good.

I’m honestly much more attracted to such kind of tasks, where a direct “communication” with the server using REST API calls must take place until the authorization process is successful.

The LinkedIn iOS SDK is also a good preference, but I prefer to stick to OAuth way for three reasons: In this tutorial, we are going to focus on the first way only, meaning that we’ll go through the necessary process that LinkedIn and OAuth 2.0 guidelines specify in order to let users sign in through an app (any app, not only iOS) and eventually authorize it for further requests. The second available option is to use the iOS SDK that LinkedIn provides, which, as every other third-party SDK, must be integrated into your project and setup up properly before making any use of it.

The first one is to use the OAuth 2.0 protocol that is supported by LinkedIn. Such a social network is LinkedIn, and in this tutorial we are going to see how to authorize the app so it’s possible to exchange protected data with the server.Īuthorizing an iOS app to LinkedIn and performing certain operations based on the provided APIs can be achieved in two different ways. However, for all the other social networks, developers have to do more work so as they successfully manage to authorize their apps to each network, and perform authorized requests from there on. There are many such networks out there, with Facebook and Twitter being the most used, and additionally there is built-in support for them in iOS.

In most cases, users are required to get connected somehow to each social network, and authorize the app so it makes requests on their behalf. Social networks are also part of our programming life, as the majority of the apps must interact somehow with them and send or receive data regarding users. Social networks are part of our everyday life since a long time ago.

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