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Faisal Abid
Faisal Abid

Reputation: 9140

Google AccountManager Android

I've been trying to figure out how to use the Google account manager to simply provide a way for users to Login to my app.

I have the AuthToken returning, but how can I get some unique info on the account that won't change for example a uniqueID or something so that I can use it to login the user?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1675

Answers (1)

plowman
plowman

Reputation: 13585

The Account object you get from AccountManager has a name field which is the user's email address. This should be unique since they are all managed by Google and require a password to set up.

Depending on what permissions you asked for when getting the AuthToken, you can query the endpoint https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/userinfo?alt=json&access_token=YourTokenHere and get back a bunch of information about the account.

The response will look something like this:

{
 "id": "1234567890",
 "email": "[email protected]",
 "verified_email": true,
 "name": "Joe Mama",
 "given_name": "Joe",
 "family_name": "Mama",
 "link": "https://plus.google.com/1234567890",
 "picture": "https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-abcd/abcd/abcd/1234/photo.jpg",
 "gender": "male",
 "locale": "en"
}

The id field here is also unique and has the bonus of being used across Google services.

Upvotes: 2

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