accountmanager

I'm about to implement login along with user authentication in my app. My first idea was to do it manually, register username and password with the server, get auth token, save it and use it in subsequent requests. After googling around, I gathered that the correct way to do it on Android was using Account Authenticator. I've seen a few examples of it's implementation but I don't understand the advantage of doing it this way? Is it because I can have more than one account stored? Is it because of syncing issues? I'd appreciate if someone could explain this to me. It would probably make me

I have a suite of apps and my AccountManager files live in one central app. I can use AccountManager.AddAccount() in that central app, but when I try to use that method from the other apps, the AuthenticatorActivity is not started. I can debug and see that all of the code from AddAccount is being executed, but the activity is never launched. Here is my AddAccount method: public override Bundle AddAccount(AccountAuthenticatorResponse response, string accountType, string authTokenType, string[] requiredFeatures, Bundle options) { var intent = new Intent(_context, typeof

I'm trying to retrieve the AuthToken for Facebook (saved by Facebook for Android ) by using the following piece of code. AccountManager am = AccountManager.get(this); Account[] accounts = am.getAccountsByType("com.facebook.auth.login"); if (accounts.length > 0) { for(int j = 0; j < accounts.length; j++) { Account account = accounts[j]; if(account.type != null && account.type.equals("com.facebook.auth.login")) { Log.e(RuntimeVars.MY_NAME, "FACEBOOK-TYPE FOUND"); am.getAuthToken(account, "com.facebook.auth.login", null, ConversationList.this, new AccountManagerCallback<Bundle>() { public void

I'm pretty exasperated. I'm attempting to build a turn-based multiplayer online game for Android using Google App Engine in Java as the server. They seem like a perfect fit. Android requires a Google account, and GAE uses a Google account for authentication, while being free and scalable. So before the holidays I was able to get authentication to my GAE app from my Android client using the new AccountManager API in Android 2.0. The following code allows you to access the AuthToken of the user's Google account and then use it for authentication, so that the user does not have to manually enter

I'm trying to get my device email address, I used Java2OP to convert AccountManager class to object pascal. However, I tried to get the email address using the following code: jAm: JAccountManager; accounts: TJavaObjectArray<JAccountClass>; jAcc: JAccountClass; begin jAM := TJAccountManager.JavaClass.get(SharedActivityContext); accounts := TJavaObjectArray<JAccountClass>.Wrap(jAM.getAccountsByType(StringToJString('com.google'))); mmLog.Lines.Add('Length Accounts: ' + Inttostr(accounts.Length)); if accounts.Length > 0 then begin jAcc := accounts.Items[0]; mmLog.Lines.Add(jstringtostring( jAcc

setAccountAuthenticatorResult can be called from the Activity, which extends AccountAuthenticatorActivity . My activity extends that, but launches ASyncTask and hence this setAccountAuthenticatorResult should be called from ASyncTask (or, the result of ASyncTask should be passed back to the main thread). How to do it? What is wrong in the code below? AsyncTask<Uri, Void, Bundle> task = new RetrieveAccessTokenTask(this, consumer, provider, prefs).execute(uri); public class RetrieveAccessTokenTask extends AsyncTask<Uri, Void, Bundle> { private Context context; public RetrieveAccessTokenTask

When using AccountManager::getAuthTokenByFeatures , an Access Request screen is shown for the user to allow or deny access to the account. After a user allows access, subsequent calls (with the same arguments) return the auth token without prompting the user. How do you clear the state to make sure the Access Request prompt appears? (This would useful at the very least for development, testing, and demo purposes.) The only solution I've found is to manually clear out the data stored in the system's accounts.db. Run the following from the command line to clear out all account grants on the