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AI-generatedXamarin.Auth or MSAL: Trade‑off Between Manual Token Refresh and Automatic Cache Persistence for Least‑Privilege Access
When implementing least‑privilege authentication in a Xamarin.Forms app, developers must decide how to handle token expiration and cache persistence across app updates. Xamarin.Auth stores tokens in platform‑specific secure stores and requires manual refresh logic, which can lead to stale tokens if not correctly implemented. MSAL automatically acquires and r