On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 6:04 PM, John Goche <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Hi Nikolay, > > On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Nikolay Elenkov <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 1:32 AM, John Goche <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > >> > Now that you have mentioned AccountManager I have found the following >> site: >> > >> > http://gnuc.in/resources/archives/1404 >> > >> > I don't know much of what this token is or what it is for. >> > Chapter 15 of the following book mentions the AccountManager: http://www.amazon.com/Android-Action-Frank-Ableson/dp/1617290505/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1325965851&sr=8-2 Basically android can store information from various accounts including usernames, passords, and auth tokens which are used so that a user does not have to login again and again (although these auth tokens can expire depending on what service they are used to connect to). The book explores authenticating to LinkedIn from android. The examples seem to use some OAuth variables with an API specific to LinkedIn. Not sure how much of this stuff applies to what I am trying to do. Here the code goes: AccountManager am = AccountManager.get(ctx); String authToken = am.getUserData(account, LinkedIn.AUTH_TOKEN); String authTokenSecret = am.getUserData(account, LinkedIn.AUTH_TOKEN_SECRET); etc... Apparently the AccountManager can present an activity to the user where the user can enter credentials? Presumably I can use this activity rather than making up my own? Most references to AccountManager I find in the literature have to do with the Contacts API since each contact is tied to an account, such as Chapter 27 of Pro Android 3<http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Android-3-Satya-Komatineni/dp/1430232226/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325968609&sr=8-1>does an AccountManager.get(ctx).getAccounts() and iterates through them printing ac.name and ac.type. There seem to be no books that describe the subject and all of the information pertaining authenticating to google accounts for using app engine seems to be on the web. Interestingly enough, when a user configures an android phone the user is asked for the credentials of a google account, although the user may later enter other accounts as well. So assuming the user has only one google account the following code may work to retrieve the account: AccountManager mgr = AccountManager.get(this); Account[] accts = mgr.getAccountsByType("com.google"); Account acct = accts[0]; and then mgr.getAuthToken(acct, "android", null, this, null, null); to retrieve the token? Anyways, now instead of having the user specify a username and password for google accounts, I now hoave the user specify an account. I will keep on reading http://gnuc.in/resources/archives/1404 and see if I can make more sense of it, it's quite a lot of info to digest but well written it seems, but right now I am not understanding the presumably Java syntax: public static void setAuthCookie() { Auth.background() { @Override public void run() { ... } }); } What is Auth.background()? Can someone please explain the Auth.background() syntax? I'm not familiar with it. Any feedback sincerely appreciated, Regards, John Goche -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
