A security service, built on Bluemix, that adds authentication to your apps and protects your back-end resources.
App ID helps developers to easily add authentication to their web and mobile apps with few lines of code, and secure their Cloud-native applications and services on IBM Cloud. By requiring users to sign in to your app, you can store user data such as app preferences, or information from public social profiles, and then leverage that data to customize each user's experience within the app. App ID provides a log-in framework for you, but you can also bring your own branded screens to use with Cloud Directory.
Key features and capabilities:
- Authentication - You can use Google, Facebook, or both as identity providers to provide a single-sign on experience for your users. By using an identity provider, your users are able to sign in with familiar credentials.
- Back-end resource protection - The App ID server SDK can be used to protect your back-end resources. The client SDKs can be used to access the resources.
- User profiles - A user profile is an entity that is stored and maintained by the service. The profile contains information about the user such as their identity. With the App ID API, users can log in anonymously or by authenticating with an identity provider. A user can begin as an anonymous user, and become an identified user without losing their information.
When asking questions about App ID, you should:
- Ensure you are asking a technical question about the App ID service.
- Search Stack Overflow to see if somebody else has already asked the same question.
- Explain what you were trying to do when you encountered the problem.
- Provide detailed steps where possible. Isolate the problem and reproduce it with as few steps as possible.
- Include the
ibm-appidtag, plus the additionalibm-cloudtag.
Getting support: See https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/appid?topic=appid-troubleshooting
