Android :: OAuth Instance State In Android

Dec 27, 2009

I'm trying to use OAuth in an Android app. I have it working correctly but have sometimes run into a problem during the authentication phase. In Android, I launch the browser for the user to login and authenticate. Then the callback url will redirect back to my application.

Here is the problem. My application has a OAuth consumer and provider as members of my main class. When the browser is launched for authentication, sometimes my main Activity is discarded to save memory. When the callback url relaunches my main Activity, the provider and consumer are new instances and therefor don't work when I try to make a request to the api. If the main Activiy was not freed during the authentication phase, then everything works correctly because I'm still working with the original consumer and provider.

I tried using onSaveInstanceState() and onRestoreInstanceState(), but haven't been successful. It seems the onRestoreInstanceState() is not called when my callback url is handled. Seems to go straight to the onResume().

What is the correct method for persisting the consumer and provider in this case?

Android :: OAuth instance state in Android


Android :: Restore Instance State

Aug 24, 2010

I need to save some state when the user leaves my game during game play. Saving the state doesn't seem to be an issue, but I can't figure out how to restore it. The onCreate function isn't called when the Activity is resumed (only when it is first created), so I can't get my state back there. Logically, I would use onRestoreInstanceState, but it isn't being called.

CODE:..........

I see log output from onSaveInstanceState, onResume, onCreate, etc, but I never see a log message from onRestoreInstanceState and savedState is always null. Why isn't onRestoreInstanceState being called, and is there another way to get my state back?

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Sep 24, 2009

I wonder what is the right way to implement this? Could anybody advice whether my solution is correct?

So:
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User opens keyboard
we have onSaveInstanceState called where we save that our dialog was opened and all respective dialog input
we have onRestoreInstanceState and here we check whether dialog was shown, recreate the dialog with respective input.

Is it the right approach? or there is smth. that is done by Android and I am doing some redundant actions.

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Android :: Save Instance State Of My Application?

Jan 11, 2010

As a follow on from my question on sharing state between Activities, how can I save the instance state of my Application? Since Application does not extend Activity, there is no onSaveInstanceState method to override.

NB: In advance, this is not a duplicate. Despite its name, How do I save an Android application's state? relates to Activity state

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Jun 24, 2009

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Apr 27, 2010

I've got an android app that pulls a random 20 questions (rows) as a cursor from a SQLite DB and loops through all the questions to ask the user all 20 questions.

Is there some way to save the cursor's state/location when the activity is paused or stopped so that when the activity resumes the cursor is restored and in the same position as it was when the activity was paused/stopped?

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Jul 3, 2010

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Feb 19, 2010

In Android, you need to implement the following Activity methods so your application can be restored to its previous state if the OS decides to destroy then recreate your activity:

public void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle savedInstanceState)
public void onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle savedInstanceState)

The examples I've seen of implementing these methods is to use put/getBoolean, put/getInt etc. on the Bundle object (i.e. primitive objects only) to save the application state. This seems hugely error prone way to save your state for a start and I cannot see how this scales to storing complex objects without writing lots of code.

What options do I have for storing/restoring state in a robust and easy to implement fashion?

In case it's important, my application (a game) needs to store about 50 objects, which each store maybe 5 float variables and some store references to other objects. I don't particularly want to have to write save/restore methods for every class and subclass (maybe about 15 of these) I use. It would be ideal if I could just stick all my state relevant objects in an object called "state" and then just call save/load on "state" to handle everything.

Is using Java serialization an option? I've heard it's very slow, but is that a problem for save/restoring? Could I just write my data to the SD card? To a database?

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Android :: Changing Displayed State Of Views Based On Parent ViewGroup's State

Aug 11, 2010

I have a compound UI component built up from a ViewGroup containing a number of TextView, ImageView etc. components. Many of these have StateListDrawables as their images/backgrounds. Is there any way of making them select from this drawable based on the state of the parent ViewGroup rather than the component itself? Ideally I want to be able to change the visual state of all children of the ViewGroup (text colour, image etc) based on the state of the ViewGroup, preferably without having to hook up complex logical code. This seems like a fairly common sort of requirement, so I was hoping it would be straightforward in Android - am I going to be disappointed?

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Android :: Phone State Listener State Transitions

Feb 8, 2009

I'm a little confused by what I'm seeing with regards to phone state transitions via the PhoneStateListener. When I receive a call, this is what happens: (call comes in) RINGING -> IDLE (I pick up) OFFHOOK (I hang up) IDLE It's that first transition from RINGING to IDLE without any interaction from me (not ending the call, not answering the call) that confuses me. Do I really have to implement an idle counter to know that an incoming call has really ended? Seems like the reported phone state represents some sort of phone state that isn't the obvious one.Is this a bug or am I just not in tune with the paradigm here?

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Android :: Best Learning Resource For OAuth

Jul 14, 2010

I have to use OAuth for my Android client and I have found that the learning resources are pretty rare or inadequate for this technology. Does anybody know a good book/tutorial/online resource to learn OAuth?

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Android :: OAuth Request Token - Null In App

Jun 4, 2010

I am trying to authenticate something(in this case LinkedIn) using OAuth but the requested token always returns null?

Here is my code below:

CODE:........

I basicaly followed the example here http://donpark.org/blog/2009/01/24/android-client-side-oauth.

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Android :: OAuth Secrets In Mobile Apps

Dec 19, 2009

When using the OAuth protocol, you need a secret string obtained from the service you want to delegate to. If you are doing this in a web app, you can simply store the secret in your data base or on the file system, but what is the best way to handle it in a mobile app (or a desktop app for that matter)?

Storing the string in the app is obviously not good, as someone could easily find it and abuse it.

Another approach would be to store it on you server, and have the app fetch it on every run, never storing it on the phone. This is almost as bad, because you have to include the URL in the app. I don't believe using https is any help.

The only workable solution I can come up with is to first obtain the Access Token as normal (preferably using a web view inside the app), and then route all further communication through our server, where a script would append the secret to the request data and communicates with the provider. Then again, I'm a security noob, so I'd really like to hear some knowledgeable peoples' opinions on this. It doesn't seem to me that most apps are going to these lengths to guarantee security (for example, Facebook Connect seems to assume that you put the secret into a string right in your app).

I don't believe the secret is involved in initially requesting the Access Token, so that could be done without involving our own server. Am I correct?

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Android :: Activity Flow During OAUTH Authentication

Feb 3, 2010

I think that I've found the problem I am having with AccountManager that I described in an earlier thread that got no responses on the board.

I think it is a problem with the way that the Activity Stack is working during the OAUTH workflow. Here's the workflow as I see it. I found this problem by separating out my Activity, which I'll call M, from the oauth Activity, which I'll call O. In the course of authentication, the web browser is invoked and let's call that B.

When a user needs to start over with authentication, my application, through Activity M, starts Activity O. That, in turn, generates some magic URL that is sent to the web browser. So the browser is fired up and information was sent to the OAUTH provider to do a redirect back through the browser back to Activity O.

So, this how the OAUTH workflow looks up to the browser: M -> O -> B

At this point the user logs in and hits the Accept button and the browser then invokes my BROWSABLE activity, which, again, is O. I had thought this would unwind the above stack, but it seems that above situation disappears and what I have after the user hits Accept in the browser is this: B -> O

What I did to work around that is that I put a startActity(M) in O and that seems to work, but it is a workaround.

I believe there is something that I could do with launch modes or activity modes to fix this problem and maintain the original activity stack.

All that is happening, really, is that the O activity pauses for little while, then comes back with the goods, the login credentials. But when I tried to return the information via startActivityForResult (), nothing. Because M is no longer on the Activity Stack.

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Nov 1, 2010

About signpost, and then went back to Twitter4J with which I have created my twitter applications when OAuth wasn't necessary. whether I should use signpost or Twitter4J's method of OAuth authentication. I have read that Twitter4J itself uses signpost for OAuth, still am not sure about the choice that I should make.

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Android :: Handle OAuth Callback Using Intent-filter

Apr 19, 2010

I am building an Android application that requires OAuth. I have all the OAuth functionality working except for handling the callback from Yahoo.

I have the following in my AndroidManifest.xml:

CODE:..............

Where www.test.com will be substituted with a domain that I own.

It seems :

This filter is triggered when I click on a link on a page. It is not triggered on the redirect by Yahoo, the browser opens the website at www.test.com It is not triggered when I enter the domain name directly in the browser.

When exactly this intent-filter will be triggered? Any changes to the intent-filter or permissions that will widen the filter to apply to redirect requests?

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Android :: Writing Twitter Client Using OAuth - Callback Fails

Feb 15, 2010

I am working on an Android application which is to serve as a simple Twitter client. I am using OAuth for authorization and have registered my application with Twitter as new OAuth client. Now when the user authorizes the application, I expect to be taken to the Callback URL(which is pointing to my application); but this is not happening.

My Problem along with source code is described in detail here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2199357/oauth-twitter-on-android-c...)

The following intent is launched post authorization: Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize? oauth_token=XXACTUAL_TOKEN_HEREXX8&oauth_callback=myapp:///tweet cmp=com.android.browser/.BrowserActivity }

Some how, the hypothetical URL, I provided while registering my application, gets called.

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Android :: Provider Is Null When Doing Oauth After Turning Back From Web Page

Jun 27, 2010

I use signpost-oauth do oauth in android, and after login on the web page, return to the Activity, the provider is null sometimes.

CODE:.....

And the manifest.xml

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I don't know why the provider is null sometimes.

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Android :: Signpost OAuth - How To Re-create The Consumer Between Two Succesive Runs

Oct 9, 2010

I'm succesfully using Signpost to authorize calls to protected resources in a Google account via OAuth.

However it seems a bit weird that the user has to go each and every time through Google and grant access. Is there a way of serializing the Consumer and recreating it so that re-authorization is not needed? I've tried keeping the tokens, secret and verifier in the shared preferences and setting them in the Consumer but I receive a OAuthExpectationFailedException.

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Android :: Android Twitter Oauth Based Authentication And Update Status SSL Error

Jul 29, 2010

Android twitter Trying the following tutorial for Oauth based authentication and updating user status.

http://www.androidsdkforum.com/android-sdk-development/3-oauth-twitter.html

When i run It has successfully authenticate but when it tries to update the status following error occur.

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Android :: Android Twitter With Oauth-signpost Error Authorization Failed - Server Replied With A 401

Jul 8, 2010

Im tryin to use Twitter with OAuth but i receive this exception.

Authorization failed (server replied with a 401). This can happen if the consumer key was not correct or the signatures did not match.

im using this sample
http://code.google.com/p/oauth-signpost/wiki/TwitterAndSignpost

Error Line:
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Android :: Implement 3 Legged Authentication Using OAuth On Android Devices

Feb 3, 2010

following questions:

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2. What does it mean when someone says: "Site/Service ABC supports OAuth"?

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Android :: Android - Twitter Oauth - Many Different Methods - None Seem To Work

Sep 16, 2010

I can't get Oauth to work with Twitter. I have tried the following (all result in the same 401 error):

CODE:.......................

I've tried my own implementation and copy/pasted the sample code from each of the sites, and nothing seems to work. I'm also 100% sure I also downloaded and included any dependencies (where needed).

Here's the interesting part. Using jTwitter and the oauth-signpost library, I can initiate a connection to Twitter, open a browser window for the user, have them log-in and generate a PIN for my app. When the app goes to post a status update however, (using the pin, and the stored access token and token secret), the 401 error pops up. All other things I've tried won't even let me open a browser window and ask the user to generate a PIN (they die with the 401 error on the request for the "request token").

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Jan 2, 2010

I have the complete source code for a small working application that performs OAUTH authorization with Twitter, then turns into a micro Twitter client, letting you post tweets to your Twitter stream. You will need to obtain an application key and secret from Twitter, by registering your application with them.

The html version of the repository is at: http://github.com/brione/Brion-Learns-OAuth.git

The read-only git repository is at: git://github.com/brione/Brion-Learns-OAuth.git

This code should work as is, once you've replaced the fake token and secret in the Keys class.

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Android :: OAuth - Twitter On Android - Callback Fails

Feb 4, 2010

My Android application uses Java OAuth library, found here for authorization on Twitter. I am able to get a request token, authorize the token and get an acknowlegement but when the browser tries the call back url to reconnect with my application, it does not use the URL I provide in code, but uses the one I supplied while registering with Twitter.

Note:

1. When registering my application with twitter, I provided a hypothetical call back url:http://abz.xyc.com and set the application type as browser.

2. I provided a callback url in my code "myapp" and have added an intent filter for my activity with Browsable category and data scheme as "myapp".

3. URL called when authorizing does contain te callback url, I specified in code.

Relevant Code:..................

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Sep 9, 2010

I am making an application which is a Twitter client. This means it connects to Twitter with OAuth. I register my application to Twitter and got all my keys, but now I do not have an idea how to connect my application with twitter. I have done some code mention below.

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Android :: Callback_url In Twitter Using Oauth From Android Application

Sep 10, 2010

I am developing an application of Twitter -Client. i got lots of hint form this site. i write some come that is

CODE:.............

I compile fine and run this application it will reditect me at Twitter site for "Allow" permision.

Then i want to come back to my android application.

But i got error" could not found "SoftDroidbyDhrumil://twitterconnetcion?OuathToken=somoething"

What do i write at my CallBack URL so i can come back from android browser to my application.

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Oct 14, 2010

Since basic auth has been deprecated, is the official android twitter app using OAuth? It still asks for my userid & password & I'm wondering how they are retrieving the oauth token ?

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Nov 19, 2010

I want to use https://github.com/brione/Brion-Learns-OAuth for posting twitter status from android

But I have problem with filling this constants. Where to find

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I create app in twitter , I guess USER_SECRET is Consumer secret. But I don't know other values.

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Android :: Android - Twitter - OAuth Integration

Sep 15, 2010

Android + Twitter Integration using OAuth.

I already worked on http://github.com/brione/Brion-Learns-OAuth and getting the error listed below, when I am posting status update...

CODE:...............

I succeed with OAuth Authentication and getting user_secret and user_token and stored in preferences...

So the issue is with http posting using OAuth header...

And My Http Post Method is as:

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