On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 5:57 PM, cuil yahoo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Appreciate the prompt response. > > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 5:33 PM, cuil yahoo <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I am making an app. which uses google authentication. For this, i pass >> on >> > intents to the browser and then using the callback method, get the token >> > back to my application. >> >> Callback method? >> > > To allow the user to authenticate himself, i pass on a url to the browser > using intent. Then when verified the browser returns a token back to a > callback class. This is perhaps easier to use for authentication. I would be > glad to know of other ways as well. (: > > How? > > >> >> > The problem i am facing is : After getting the token when i go to my >> next >> > activity, and if i click back( which calls finish() ) it goes back to >> the >> > browser (which i think did not close but just transferred the token and >> then >> > remained in the background ). >> > >> > I want to display my main activity when i click back . It would be great >> if >> > someone could please provide some pointers. >> >> With regards to your subject line, you cannot close the browser. That >> is another application -- you have no more rights to close some other >> application than other applications have the right to close yours. >> > > Oh...yes, agreed. absolutely. > >> >> Off the cuff, I would think that this sort of authentication would >> work better with a WebView widget, so you can control this stuff >> better. Then again, I have not tried it. >> >> -- >> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) >> http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy >> http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy >> >> Android Training in London: http://bit.ly/smand1 and http://bit.ly/smand2 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Android Developers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > > i want my previous activity to be shown instead of the browser when i click > back in the newer activity (the one which comes after the authentication). > > just wondering : correct me i am wrong, if i say create an intent of my > previous activity and use startActivity (intent_name), all the data stored > in the previous activity would be lost ? > > > -- > Cuil > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
