Adding an App to Account Manager

[QLogic]

Greetings,

I have been trying to find a thread for this. But is there a Library that allows me to take an authenticated app and after successful authentication, the app's login credentials are stored in the Account Manager in the Settings Menu of the phone?

Thanks.

 

[Erel]

There isn't a library available for that. You can post a feature request in the wishlist forum.

Though you can probably implement a similar solution (that will not show in the accounts list).

 

[Ted K]

noob here
Has Accounts Manager (Android) been implemented since this last message?
THANKS! Trying out B4A right now AND LOVING IT THUS FAR!

 

[Erel]

I don't think so. What do you need it for?

 

[Ted K]

When I was working in Android Studio, Xamarin, etc I was able to Auth a user and then save their info (persist login) by storing the required info in the android account manager.

I saw other threads here that you can merely use files on I think it was Files.DirInternal or something like that (sorry on my phone replying) to write/retrieve this kind of data which is isolated from other apps and interactions, but is that really secure?

Thanks! After one day with B4A, I'll never use another android IDE. B4A is awesome!!!

 

[Erel]

File.DirInternal is only accessible by your own app (on unrooted devices). So it is secure. If the device is rooted then the account manager is also not secured.

Note that you can easily encrypt the data (check KeyValueStore class). Though you will need to store the password somewhere so it is also not 100% secure.

 

[Ted K]

Thanks!