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From June 13 to 15, the Rediris Technical Conference was held in Santander, bringing together ICT staff from all Spanish universities.

Since the creation of the Internet and increasingly, we have had data generated by many applications and we have within reach waiting to be used. Once, having and consuming all this enormous material could become a task virtually impossible or unfeasible both economically and technologically.

Nowadays multicore architecture is everywhere. Who doesn’t have a cellphone or a laptop with more than one processor? This architecture offers new opportunities for the applications using it, because it doesn’t only provides more computing resources but also the capability of managing shared memory in order to enhance the performance.

"Data science," was born of  the scientific method, is the evolution of what has hitherto been known as a data analyst, but unlike it, data scientist should explore and analyze data from multiple sources, often huge (known as Big data), which may have very different formats. Data scientist also has a strong business vision to be able to extract and transmit recommendations to business leaders in his company.

The Racó has API that is accessible via OAuth. Using it from a mobile application is not a simple task. In this article we will try to see how to do it from Android. At the same time, this serves as an example of how to use this kind of authentication in any other API that works with OAuth.

First of all, we will assume certain minimum knowledge on Android development.