native application

A native application is a public client installed and executed on

the device used by the resource owner. Protocol data and

credentials are accessible to the resource owner. It is assumed

that any client authentication credentials included in the

application can be extracted. On the other hand, dynamically

issued credentials such as access tokens or refresh tokens can

receive an acceptable level of protection. At a minimum, these

credentials are protected from hostile servers with which the

application may interact. On some platforms, these credentials

might be protected from other applications residing on the same

device.