Re: [aerogear-dev] [Android] KeyCloak Authenticator

From: "Summers Pittman" <supittma(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "AeroGear Developer Mailing List" <aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org&gt; Sent: Monday, 15 September, 2014 4:36:31 PM Subject: [aerogear-dev] [Android] KeyCloak Authenticator <tldr>DEVELOPERS WILL NEVER HAVE TO WRITE ANOTHER LINE OF AUTH LOGIC AGAIN!</tldr> Over the weekend I tried my hand at writing a Android Account Authenticator for KeyCloak. This lets Android manage the KeyCloak account, fetch tokens, provide tokens to other apps etc. KeyCloak Authenticator let's you drop your keycloak.json file into an apk and access your KeyCloak Account with one line of code from any application on your Android device. Right now this is very much in the "I have an itch needing scratching" phase. It doesn't do any robust error handling, hasn't been testing off the golden scenario, has no integration with any of the AeroGear stuff, etc. Take a moment to watch the Demo and look at the demo project. Video Demo : https://plus.google.com/103442292643366117394/posts/WSFbdodMsej The Demo video uses Android's native account menu to request from the authenticator a KeyCloak account. This launches the authenticator's activity which will retrieve the credentials for Android and store them. When I am back in the settings page and showing off the stored account, this is all native Android UI and not part of the KeyCloak authenticator. When I launch the Demo application this is a separate application from the authenticator apk. The Demo project fetches the KeyCloak account from Android and gets its auth token. Then it makes a request to KeyCloak's account service to fetch the user's account data. In the demo app there are three lines of code related to auth. final Account account = am.getAccountsByType("org.keycloak.Account")[0]; String token = am.getAuthToken(account, "org.keycloak.Account.token", null, null, null, null).getResult().getString(AccountManager.KEY_AUTHTOKEN); and provider.setDefaultHeader("Authorization", "bearer " + token); The first two lines fetch the account and token from Android. The second line attaches the account's auth token to the web request to the server. So now what? I'll probably use this for my projects/demos because it makes my work easier. Right now it doesn't have any connection to any of the "official" projects (Again, I wrote this over the weekend to see if I could) however it may be quite useful to someone. In the project's README I've included a (incomplete) list of things that don't work. wdyt? Links : Project : https://github.com/secondsun/keycloak-android-authenticator Video Demo : https://plus.google.com/103442292643366117394/posts/WSFbdodMsej Demo Source : https://github.com/secondsun/keycloak-account-authenticator-demo/ -- Summers Pittman >>Phone:404 941 4698 >>Java is my crack. _______________________________________________ aerogear-dev mailing list aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev