Re: Registering and authenticating via iPhone/Android app

I read somewhere that Instagram use django-piston. But them some people are saying that Piston has had any development done in over a year. 

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On 23 May 2012 23:12, Roarster <ianstrachan2008@googlemail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:02:15 UTC+1, bruno desthuilliers wrote:

On May 23, 1:12 pm, Roarster <ianstrachan2...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I'm developing a site using Django using the built in user authentication
> module.  This is all working fine and users can register, login, etc. on
> the web site with no problems.  The plan is to also have companion
> iPhone/Android apps where users can register/login and then access their
> data on the main site.  This is where I'm a bit unsure of how to proceed.
>  I've been looking into using TastyPie to create a REST API which I think
> will work fine for accessing/updating data but I'm not sure if this is
> appropriate for creating new users and authenticating existing users.

I'm definitly not an expert when it comes to mobile apps, but there
are quite a few known REST (or XMLRPC or else) APIs around that
include at least user authentication - think google (including
youtube, blogger etc), dailymotion, most blogging platforms, etc.

As far as I'm concerned, I'd definitly use the API for authentication
too (possibly using OAuth). wrt/ registration, well, I have not
checked if any of the above APIs support this, but from your Django
app's POV, it's still all about HTTP requests / responses anyway so
well...

My 2 cents, really..

Thanks Bruno.  I've had a bit more of a look into this and everyone seems to be using OAuth, as you mention.  I did try to get this working with the Tastypie API but I couldn't really find any documentation and found it a bit of a struggle.  I guess I'll have to look into this further.

I've also looked into the public APIs you mention and none of them seem to allow registration (at least not on the public API).  I guess since my API will be private (at least initially) I can do what I want, I was just hoping to find out what some other well used apps (e.g. Instagram) might use for communication.  Do you think it's possible they just have another REST API they don't disclose?

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