Login with google issues on iOS native app about identity

[maebeam]

@andyboyd let's start an email thread about how to make login with google and apple work well in mobile apps?

[maebeam]

Let's add ?google=false for now while we figure this stuff out.

[maebeam]

I added ?hideGoogle=true for now

[andyboyd]

Thanks @maebeam, that's great as a stopgap solution. Happy to help you work on getting it working properly if you need it too.

[maebeam]

Well actually, with the change I pushed last night, it uses a redirect and should "just work" with a spoofed user agent. But I think the ideal solution is to figure out how to launch an ASWebAuthenticationSession.

[andyboyd]

To be perfectly honest, I think the best solution is still an official native library, but yes, we can start an email thread to discuss options. Very keen to work with you on the best way forward.

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[maebeam]

Yes, it's absolutely time for a native library.

[andyboyd]

@maebeam - it seems something has changed over the weekend, and now if hideGoogle=true is set, then there is no way to load a new account. If an account is already loaded into Identity, you can still log back into it, but you can't add another one. See the attached screenshot:

We'll need this to be fixed ASAP, no new users can sign up for our app with this issue, and existing users can't sign back in if they happen to have uninstalled.

[maebeam]

Apologies! Will push a fix now

[maebeam]

@andyboyd also, we changed the google flow to use a redirect instead of a pop up, so it should "just work" if you adjust the user agent accordingly

[andyboyd]

Thanks @maebeam . Do you happen to know what the user agent needs to be set to in order to work in the google flow? I imagine it just needs to pretend to be Safari, though I'm not sure how good a practice it is to spoof the user agent to pretend to be something you're not. I could see it leading to some unintended consequences, but I'll have a play around and see if it works now.

[maebeam]

Yeah, just set it to any mobile safari UA. It should be totally fine.