[aerogear-dev] External vs Embedded browser for OAuth2 libs and Cordova plugin

[Matthias Wessendorf]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Daniel Passos <daniel at passos.me> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Corinne Krych <corinnekrych at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Guys,
>>
>> Erik did some great progress on OAuth2 iOS plugin using external browser
>> approach. Some workarounds are needed for iOS because of Swift based plugin
>> and are documented here:
>> https://github.com/edewit/aerogear-oauth2-plugin#workaround-for-ios
>>
>> As descibed in the readme instruction:
>> https://github.com/edewit/aerogear-oauth2-plugin#aerogear-oauth2-cordova
>> I think the best approach is to go external browser, one of the main
>> issue with embedded view is that the user stills have to enter credentials
>> in native app. Although it might offer a better UX experience not switching
>> apps, it’s seen as less secure. My preference would be to go external. On
>> iOS, the re-enter app is solved using URI schema. The same approach is used
>> fro Cordova plugin, the schema is configured in the config.xml cordova file.
>>
>> @summersp @passos do you have plan to move to external browser?
>>
>
> Yes => https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGDROID-319
>

awesome!

-M


>
>
>> Erik started working on Oauth2 Android with embedded view, but if we’re
>> planning to move to ext. browser maybe it's worth putting the plugin
>> implementation on hold untill we got that?
>>
>> ++
>> Corinne
>> —————
>> AeroGear iOS tech lead
>>
>>
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