[keycloak-dev] Keycloak and mobile

[Bill Burke]

On 8/14/2013 2:45 PM, Matt Wringe wrote:
> Thoughts on some possible ways to handle mobile aspects with Keycloak.
> Its just a very brief outline of some of the options to get a
> conversation started. I tried to brief as possible, but the email is
> still a bit long :/
>
> Mobile web app
> Works similar to how any normal web app would work with keycloak. Only
> changes really needed would be to make sure the login pages and such are
> designed to work properly on varying sizes of touchscreens.
>
>
> Native Mobile App Approaches
>
> 1)Native mobile app accessing keycloak through a custom webview.
> Its possible for a native application to create a webview and load the
> web components of keycloak through this. Requires some changes to
> keycloak to return the token to the application since using a normal
> redirect url isn't feasible.

On iphone you can redirect to and from native apps using URLs.  So it 
would be possible to use the Keycloak web login and redirects with 
iphone.  Are you sure Android doesn't have something similar?

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Bill Burke
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