Hey guys! Due to some restrictions by Google, its social login is a bit of a pain for multi-OS apps: You need a different auth API key/token for the Google login feature depending on the operating system of the user.
This means I can allow my users to login with Google on my website, but if then the website is wrapped as an Android app (available to download on Google Play), I need a different login process (for a different auth API key/token).
The only way I’ve thought this would be possible is by splitting the workflows depending on the user OS:
If the user is on web, I go through the current login process, which works fine.
If the user is on an Android app, a different workflow.
If the user is on an iOS app, a different workflow.
How can I retrieve this information (web/Android/iOS) when the user opens the app? Thanks!
Thanks a lot, @marcusandrews! I’ve installed the “Browser” plugin and now I can access the user agent and the platform info.
However, how can I know for sure if the device is a website, or an Android device using a wrapped app from that website? These are 3 different cases:
1. User from a website (Chrome on a MacBook):
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.100 Safari/537.36
Platform: MacIntel
2. User from a website (Chrome on an Android smartphone):
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; H8416) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.111 Mobile Safari/537.36
Platform: Linux armv8l
3. User from an Android app:
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; H8416 Build/52.0.A.8.83; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/76.0.3809.111 Mobile Safari/537.36
Platform: Linux armv8l
The only different pattern I see for the Android app is that it contains a “Build” words in the user agent. Would this be the case for anybody opening the app? If so, I think we have a chance to detect non-Android web vs Android web vs Android app! And the same for iOS.
