[keycloak-dev] KEYCLOAK-2606 - Browsertab-Support for Cordova

[Gregor Tudan]

Hi there,

I would like to pick up an old issue: KEYCLOAK-2606<https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-2606>
Our current app uses Keycloak with the Cordova In-App-Browser. Technically this works fine, but the user experience is … uhmm … awful. The page renders quiet slow and has focus issues.

I’d love to help getting some support for the browser-tab. I started porting the ionic sample app to browertabs, but would like to check back with you before doing something stupid.

The idea is:
1. In Keycloak.js Cordova Adapter check if browertab is supported, else fall back to in-app-browser
2. Open the login-page with the In-App-Browser (leaving the app)
3. Register a custom-url-scheme and configure it as redirect url (i.e. keycloakapp://). We’ll need another Cordova plugin for this (i.e. deep links). The Cordova-Adapter needs to get extended for this, since „localost“ seems to be hardcoded as redirect-url)
4. The Keycloak-server will redirect to the app after login succeeded. The App will need to reinitialize the Keycloak-Adapter with the code given in the url - I’m not sure if this will work out of the box.

Does this sound reasonable?

Thanks,
Gregor!