Simple data sharing overview

The Simple Data Sharing feature securely shares information among a family of applications on a single device. This feature uses native APIs already present in the different mobile SDKs to provide one unified developer API. This MobileFirst API abstracts the different platform complexities. Developers can implement code that allows for inter-application communication.

This feature is supported on iOS and Android for both hybrid and native applications.

After enabling the Simple Data Sharing feature, we can use the provided hybrid and native APIs to exchange simple string tokens among a family of applications on a device.

When used with features like device SSO or User Certificate Authentication features, the Simple Data Sharing feature enhances the ability of these features to share security credentials among applications in the same family. For example, we can share user authentication cookies among a family of applications to allow device SSO to work when a reverse proxy is used. It also enables the User Certificate Authentication feature to provision an X.509 user certificate to a family of applications on a device.

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