[keycloak-user] Authentication & Registration from Android application

Jérôme Blanchard jayblanc at gmail.com
Wed Oct 11 16:28:58 EDT 2017


Hi all,

In order to include keycloak in a android app, I'd like to know if somebody
as a solution for this integration. We needs to handle authentication but
also account creation from the android app (or ios). We use Ionic for the
app to be available from web browser and native phone app.
In the native app, authentication open a browser page from the native app
but, as we could imagine, the authentication process is not able to go back
to the native app...
I know that it is possible to create a dedicated login page inside the app
using the Direct Grant Access mechanism but I'd like to know if there is
other solution (like an Intent but compatible with keycloak) ?

Second and major problem for integration is that we'd like users to be able
to start an account creation from the Android app directly. As I
understand, only admin API allows to perform user creation so I imagine
that I will have to create a dedicated 'proxy' webapp, acting as a keycloak
admin and relying android app backend calls for real keycloak account
creation...

Is anybody have a more confortable solution avoiding developing such
'proxy' ?

Thanks a lot for you support, best regards, Jerome.


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