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title: Device Authorization Grant Flow
description: Workflow showing how to initiate a PingOne device authorization grant flow and complete device sign-on and consent
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# Device Authorization Grant Flow

This activity shows you how to initiate a device authorization grant flow to send an activation code to the end user. The authorization and flow orchestration steps apply only to applications that specify `device_code` as a grant type in the application configuration.

The following operations are supported by the PingOne APIs:

* Create an application

* Create a population and a user

* Initiate an authorize request

* Use flow APIs to complete the flow

## Prerequisites

* Get an access token from the worker application you created in [Create an admin Worker app connection](../../../../getting-started/create-an-admin-worker-app/index.html). If you prefer to get a token from a different worker application in an alternate sandbox environment, run the token request endpoint using the client ID and client secret of your chosen worker app to authenticate the request. Refer to [Get a PingOne admin access token](../../../../getting-started/create-a-test-environment/step-1-get-access-token.html).

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