Authentication in android web view

ravi99

I am integrating Flarum into android app using web view. Now when user is logged into my application I don't want user to land on Flarum login page. How could I accomplish this?

I already have gone through https://www.flarumchina.org/docs/api/ and generating tokens. However, I couldn't get how would it help with web view.

askvortsov

Are you trying to use web view to display the forum inside your app? If so, I don't see why you would need to generate a token manually?

There's several distinct components to integration. Firstly, you probably want people to be able to log into Flarum through whatever website/identity management system you have set up. That's gonna require an SSO system. I would recommend that you look into an identity provider system such as OAuth (which you could then integrate with your flarum installation using Fof Passport). The other component would be getting the forum itself to show up inside your app via web view. Unfortunately I haven't worked that much with web view and can't provide that much info on how to use it, but I'm sure there's plenty of resources out there.

ravi99

I could find https://discuss.flarum.org/d/5052-single-sign-on
Would it be helpful with web view.

Found one https://discuss.flarum.org/d/21666-single-sign-on-sso-with-wordpress-integration

askvortsov

What youre linking is a sso extension for WordPress. You could use the code for inspiration, but it wouldn't do what you want.

To be honest, it looks like youre looking to undertake somewhat of a challenging task. I would recommend that you start by researching and thoroughly understanding all the systems involved (oauth, web view, SSO, etc), or hiring a developer with experience in what you are trying to achieve.

ravi99

I already tried searching through forum but couldn't find something I could use with my android web view (they usable for word press OR php application). It seems the only way forward is to develop something following https://discuss.flarum.org/d/2808-how-i-implemented-cross-authentication-with-flarum for my custom authentication.