so i have a meteor app, and i'm using facebook login (and google etc) for user authentication.
and i'm using MeteorRider which is basically "hijacking" the DOM from my meteor app, this way i get also a phonegap app.
So when using web and clicking on the facebook login, its working great.
but when using the phonegap app, its not working. its making an ouath call (opening a browser and do all the process but does not automatically close the browser and bring up my app) but then redirect to my app in the browser.
i'm still trying to figure how the two works with each other.
do i need to do this authentication using phonegap api or should i handle it using meteor api?
I use this for any oauth requirements in phonegap. https://github.com/oauth-io/oauth-phonegap
It handles closing of the browser etc.
I just released a package to fix this. It uses the InAppBrowser plugin to load the popup, listens for the auth token, closes the popup and logs in/creates account.
https://atmosphere.meteor.com/package/phonegap-oauth
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I have a working Facebook web application built with angular that uses the Javascript SDK in order to login into my app, and that works fine on desktop/laptop computers.When I tried to login with my smartphone, it would not open the login window.
What would be the best approach to bypass it?
I was thinking about using the manual login flow with OAuth and then pass the user token from the server to the client in order for it to make the regular calls.
Would that be a good strategy?
If so, does it makes sense to set a user token in the Javascript SDK so I can use it?
(e.g, FB.ui(), FB.api() calls)
I just got my app working with $cordovaOAuth from ng-cordova and I've read and understood all from Nic Raboy's post (http://blog.ionic.io/oauth-ionic-ngcordova/). It works fine: both the inAppBrowser and the authentication itself.
But I want to take it one step further: how can I redirect the OAuth call to the installed app itself? For example, if I was using Facebook OAuth, how can I open the actual Facebook app (if installed - how to check it?) instead of a browser?
Building first firebase app using phonegap and angularjs. It authenticates fine in Chrome and I get back the fb user id.
My problem is when I build it with phonegap 2.9 and login with facebook I get nothing but a white screen after login.
My limited understanding is that I'm probably not handling the callback correctly.
In my console logs I see:
Finished load of: https://auth.firebase.com/auth/facebook/callback/?firebase=mementomori
&internalRedirect=false&code=AQDLp_n5_JCnC4yc1OXcXhd2Xfty_UHy_2bmOpR
-JIbyeEZQfh9LCf02deQkXbtXQknxYpTf_XHGFiy4DB1S4Do6fILTmFZ2_z
-S_N872VhwtlWkkOam4I9iMKoqa8PF43jIIdfvTpg8CwPZMs3YrVwqwuJRKzkovBL6nWI8vtdSa
_CFnEhHanXHoaJ3mH7d2vmbhmNGusBkfRdqXnd3LEC1rUyY7hrEr4pfN3BCRAzzgY_
YTot0CUoqRImLPAI76qc18KWaCytZ0ueaMnH7zavkvNExpVSiKlPQBdLUQmFmZQa
FQc6gNWm3dfZTAJw9hLg#_=_
Can anyone offer any information on how I should handle this callback properly?
Solution
I got around my issue by logging in with the native phonegap fb plugin and then passing the auth tocken to firebase for authentication.
If you're using Firebase Simple Login with Phonegap, there are a few prerequisites:
You've included phonegap.js or cordova.js in your application.
Enabled the InAppBrowser plugin in your application.
With both of the above configured, Firebase Simple Login will behave equivalently in PhoneGap as in on desktop / web, where the callback you passed to the Simple Login constructor is invoked with login error or user object. Hope that helps!
So I'm trying to build a Blackberry Webworks that integrates with Facebook.
I'm trying to use the Javascript API provided by Facebook, but I'm having some issues with logging in.
The typical "FB.login" function creates a popup, and this doesn't show up on a Blackberry so using that is no good.
Another issue is that I have no idea what to set as the redirect_url for the oauth login, because Webworks pages are referenced locally (local://index.html), and the API rejects this as a valid url. (I've also tried just index.html, but this also causes an error)
And finally, I have no idea what to use for the Mobile Website URL on the Application settings and not sure what other settings to use. Since users will be coming from a Webworks app, Facebook is rejecting login requests if I try to call the oauth url directly. (191 Error).
I figured out the only viable way to do this is to have a web server that will go through the OAuth2 authentication process documented by Facebook.
What you can do in Blackberry is open a new window or to use a Blackberry BrowserField that links to the web server, that way, your page will be able to get the oauth token that you can use to make Graph API calls.
I'm building a (Rails-based) web service with a mobile app (iPhone) as frontend. In order to allow people to login using Facebook, I've built something using devise and omniauth that allows the user to log in using Facebook and store the credentials in the database. This works perfectly, all from the web app.
However, now the second part: I want to let users log in via the mobile app. Of course, there are the FB Connect libraries, but they give the mobile app access to the Graph API. Instead, I would like a mobile log-in screen that authorizes Rails to access the data. This is because later on, users might use both the iPhone app and web app.
What would be the recommended way of doing this? Are there any best practices?
I solved it by doing the authorization using FB Connect and the FB app. After authorizing, the FB app opens my app again, and I can read out the access token. Which I can then send to the server and use there.