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

[Stian Thorgersen]

Sounds reasonable. I recommend looking at the following first though before
you start implementation AppAuth [1] and OAuth 2.0 for Native Apps [2]

[1] https://appauth.io/
[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8252

On 28 May 2018 at 16:34, Gregor Tudan <Gregor.Tudan at cofinpro.de> wrote:

> 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!
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