React Native / Expo

The @authdog/react-native SDK brings Authdog to React Native and Expo apps: a provider, session and user hooks, sign-in/out helpers, and a secure-storage adapter. Sign-in uses a deep-link redirect that lands with a token. It reads the session Authdog issues.

Install

npm install @authdog/react-native
npx expo install expo-secure-store

yarn add @authdog/react-native
npx expo install expo-secure-store

pnpm add @authdog/react-native
npx expo install expo-secure-store

bun add @authdog/react-native
npx expo install expo-secure-store

deno add npm:@authdog/react-native
npx expo install expo-secure-store

Requires React 18/19 and React Native >=0.74. There's no hard Expo dependency; expo-secure-store is only for persistent storage. Set EXPO_PUBLIC_PK_AUTHDOG to your environment's public key (pk_...).

Wrap your app

Pass the public key and a storage adapter. Without one, sessions are held in memory and don't survive a restart, so use the SecureStore adapter in real apps:

import * as SecureStore from "expo-secure-store"
import {
  AuthdogProvider,
  createSecureStoreAdapter,
} from "@authdog/react-native"

export default function App() {
  return (
    <AuthdogProvider
      publicKey={process.env.EXPO_PUBLIC_PK_AUTHDOG!}
      storage={createSecureStoreAdapter(SecureStore)}
    >
      <RootNavigator />
    </AuthdogProvider>
  )
}

Sign in with a deep link

useSignIn opens the hosted flow. Handle both cold-start and warm links; useRedirectHandler checks JWT structure before storing the token:

import { useEffect } from "react"
import { Button, Linking } from "react-native"
import { useSignIn, useRedirectHandler } from "@authdog/react-native"

export function SignInButton() {
  const { signIn } = useSignIn()
  const { handleRedirect } = useRedirectHandler()

  useEffect(() => {
    Linking.getInitialURL().then((url) => url && handleRedirect(url))
    const subscription = Linking.addEventListener("url", ({ url }) => {
      handleRedirect(url)
    })
    return () => subscription.remove()
  }, [handleRedirect])

  return <Button title="Sign in" onPress={() => signIn("myapp://callback")} />
}

Register the same callback scheme in your app configuration and Authdog environment. The local JWT check is not cryptographic authentication; send the bearer token to a backend that validates it before granting access.

Read the session

useAuthz is for showing and hiding UI only: enforce access on your backend with your authorization model.

Next steps

• Sign up & sign in: the flows behind the redirect.
• Backend requests: validate the mobile session on your API.
• Field companion: runnable example for this stack.