I am developing a Xamarin.Forms PCL mobile application and need access to an internal API that requires authentication via Azure. My coworker gave me a code snippet that works in a console application, and I am attempting to adapt it for my mobile application.
I am able to successfully add the ADAL package to the PCL. However, authentication requires that I pass along a set of PlatformParameters for each platform-specific version. When I attempt to add the ADAL package to the Xamarin.Android project, I get the following errors in my Resource.Designer.cs file:
ERROR: 'Resource.Id' does not contain a definition for 'agentWebView'
ERROR: 'Resource.Layout' does not contain a definition for 'WebAuthenticationBroker'
The relevant (auto-generated) lines of code in Resource.Designer.cs are:
global::Microsoft.Experimental.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory.Resource.Id.agentWebView = global::MissionControlAuth.Droid.Resource.Id.agentWebView;
global::Microsoft.Experimental.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory.Resource.Layout.WebAuthenticationBroker = global::MissionControlAuth.Droid.Resource.Layout.WebAuthenticationBroker;
The names of these missing resources suggest that I need to point the ADAL package to a webview that can be used to display a login page to the user. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any mention of this on StackOverflow or on the Xamarin forums. How can I correctly set up the ADAL package for my Xamarin.Forms PCL?
Platform / Library Versions
- .NET Framework 4.5
- Xamarin.Forms v2.0.0.6482 targeting Xamarin.Android and UWP
- Visual Studio 2015
- Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory v3.5.207081303-alpha (relevant answer)
- Alternatively, Microsoft.Experimental.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory v4.0.209160138-alpha (relevant answer)
Steps to Reproduce
- Create a new Xamarin.Forms PCL project.
- Choose one of the ADAL package versions above and add it to the PCL.
- Add the same package version to the Xamarin.Android project. The library will install successfully, but there will be missing resource errors in the "Error List" tab in Visual Studio.
