Have you ever managed to figure out how to use AccountManager in order
to get access to Google Reader api? e.g. 
http://code.google.com/p/pyrfeed/wiki/GoogleReaderAPI

On May 28, 8:29 am, ubikdroid <[email protected]> wrote:
> In Android 2.2 the private API GoogleLoginServiceHelper can no longer
> return auth tokens with the getCredentials() method it seems. This is
> fine as it is a private API and using it was always risky. However, I
> was using it to retrieve an auth token for use as a cookie to visit
> the Google Reader site in a webview. This was retrieved by setting the
> service string in the getCredentials() call to null. This required the
> permission
> com.google.android.googleapps.permission.GOOGLE_AUTH.OTHER_SERVICES in
> the manifest.
>
> I have tried using the AccountManager available since Android 2.0 and
> I can retrieve an auth token for the Google Reader API by setting the
> authTokenType to "reader" in getAuthTokenByFeatures(). However, this
> token cannot be used as a cookie in the webview. The user is asked to
> login in again which isn't a great experience. I have tried retrieving
> a second auth token with authTokenType set to null but this causes an
> IllegalArgumentException. I have also tried "misc", "all", "web",
> "generic", "general", "other", "google" and an empty string, none of
> which work.
>
> I guess what I am getting is, can a list of valid authTokenTypes be
> published please?

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