title: Laravel RESTful API authentication for mobile app
body: <p>I would like to discuss what is the best way to secure your API's in order to be used from a mobile application.</p>
  
  <p>Since there is not third-party I guess OAuth is not a good choice?<br>
  Would JWT be a good choice?</p>
  
  <p>The hard part for me to understand is how can I authenticate so I can protect the data in my API's unless someone is authorized to call them.</p>
  
  <p>I use Laravel 5.1 in server side and the mobile application that I want to call the API's is an android one.</p>
  
  <p>I hope that I didn't forget to mention any important information.
  Any kind of help will be appreciated. </p>