Enable Certificate-Based Authentication

1. Navigate to SAP Mobile Services cockpit.

2. On the home screen, select Create new app.

   

3. In Basic Info step, provide the required information and click Next.

   Field	Value
   ID	com.sap.mdk.certs
   Name	SAP MDK cert auth App

   

   If you are configuring this app in a trial account, make sure to select License Type as lite.

4. In the XSUAA Settings step, continue with the default settings and click Next to navigate to further steps.

   

5. In Assign Features step, choose Mobile Development Kit Application from the dropdown, and click Finish.

   

   If you see a Confirm Finish window, click OK.

When you configure an MDK app in Mobile Service cockpit, OAuth security is assigned to the app by default.

To enable certificate based authentication, you need to modify Redirect URL in Security configuration.

1. Click Security.

   

2. Click pencil icon to make changes to default configuration.

   

3. Replace the Redirect URL with mdkclient://oauth2redirect parameter, and click OK to save the changes. This Redirect URL needs to be added in the AllowedDomains property while building your branded client (step 3.5).

   

   mdkclient is an URL scheme for your branded MDK client, you will use this value in step 3.3.

   oauth2redirect is just a random path. It could be any value.

Make sure you are choosing the right development platform tab above.

Make sure that you have already completed steps 1 & 2 from this tutorial.

Make sure you are choosing the right development platform tab above.

This name of this folder is based on the <App Name> provided in the MDKProject.json file and this is the MDK client application generated project.

Make sure you are choosing the right device platform tab above.