Is there a new version of Xamarin.OpenId.AppAuth.Android?

Question

I have been following an Okta tutorial from 2018 (which is the latest I can find) about adding OAuth to a Xamarin Forms and it references Xamarin.OpenId.AppAuth.Android which according to Nuget is prerelease (0.7) and also hasn't been updated since 2018.

This package won't work with my Xamarin app as it references an old v4 Android package and newer Xamarin uses v7 or AndroidX stuff.

So - is there a new package (updated <6 months ago) somewhere I can't find? Or is there a different method to do this now and if so - what is it?

Thanks in advance

First post, happy to edit / add info as needed, please just let me know

user_12378932 · Answer

From what I have found, there is no direct upgrade for this and the solution is to simply use an alternative method. Personally, due to lack of knowledge in this space, I opted to use a different identity provider who had better support.

user_3618560 · Answer

There are oauth libraries out there maintained by vendors in the identity and access management space. But this one seems to be more or less the official library to use with Xamarin apps: https://github.com/IdentityModel/IdentityModel.OidcClient

It is not maintained by a specific vendor, so it could be used with any of them with the proper configurations.

user_5671529 · Answer

Xamarin provides the ability of creating Xamarin Binding Library for both iOS And Android. You can download the latest AppAuth .AAR file from the Maven Central Repository and create the Xamarin component and use it.

Download AppAuth.AAR file from https://search.maven.org/search?q=a:appauth

Creating Xamarin Binding Library Walkthrough: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/android/platform/binding-java-library/binding-an-aar

Is there a new version of Xamarin.OpenId.AppAuth.Android?

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