apiKey

Find its value from the `firebase_options.dart` file and paste here.

appId

messagingSenderId

projectId

authDomain

storageBucket

iosClientId

iosBundleId

measurementId

Gain insights into using Flutter and Dart to build visually stunning, high-performance Android and iOS apps. Delve into UI/UX design, networking, state management, Firebase, testing, and deployment.

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Get ready to unlock the potential of Flutter and Dart as you learn to craft visually stunning and high-performance applications for both Android and iOS.

This course will teach you to plan, build, and deploy interactive Flutter applications. You’ll start by developing user interfaces and handling gestures. Next, you’ll explore navigation and routing to smoothly move around your app. You’ll then dive into networking and HTTP to connect your app to the internet and implement data persistence. You’ll use Firebase services for authentication and storing data. State management comes next, helping you manage the different pieces of your app efficiently. Then, you’ll focus on testing, analytics, and crash reporting. You’ll then explore accessibility and internationalization, making your app usable by everyone and suitable for different languages. Lastly, you’ll learn app deployment.

The course wraps up with a project: you will create an online furniture store, combining all the skills you’ve learned.

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# Making authenticated HTTP requests

In most cases, we will be interacting with endpoints that require some form of authentication and possibly authorization for us to fetch or make changes to resources. Therefore, we would need to send the user's credentials with a request to validate that it is coming from a known source.

There are several different ways to authenticate REST API requests. In our case, we will use **bearer authentication**, which is the most commonly used form of authentication. This authentication method involves security tokens, commonly known as **bearer tokens**, attached to a request's `Authorization` header.

## How to authenticate requests

To make authenticated requests:

1. Log in to the API on an authentication endpoint and get back a token.
2. Save the token on disk (we will explore this in the [Data Persistence Concepts](https://www.educative.io/courses/complete-guide-to-flutter/data-persistence-concepts) lesson).
3. Supply the token in the protected API endpoints' headers.

Let's see how to implement this using our mock API service.

Test the sample requests in the app below:

Learn to make authenticated requests to REST API endpoints using bearer tokens.

Introduction

User Interface

Navigation and Routing

Networking and HTTP

Persisting Data

State Management

Firebase for Flutter

Essential Tools to Enhance Your Flutter Workflow

Quality Assurance

Accessibility and Internalization

Deployment

Project: Build an Online Furniture Store

Next Steps

Authenticating Requests

Making authenticated HTTP requests