Re: [android-developers] AccountManager and storing credentials

2013-02-12 Thread Nikolay Elenkov
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 2:16 AM, saladbowl wrote: > Thanks Nikolay, this is a really good and helpful answer. > > So, from your experience - do you think most application developers go down > the recommended token-based route? or just accept that AccountManager relies > on root permissions and sto

Re: [android-developers] AccountManager and storing credentials

2013-02-12 Thread saladbowl
Thanks Nikolay, this is a really good and helpful answer. So, from your experience - do you think most application developers go down the recommended token-based route? or just accept that AccountManager relies on root permissions and store the username and password directly (if there is no ext

Re: [android-developers] AccountManager and storing credentials

2013-02-12 Thread Nikolay Elenkov
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:11 AM, saladbowl wrote: > > My understanding is that the AccountManager stores the > username and password in plain text. On non-rooted devices this seems to be > relatively OK because the AccountManager DB requires root permissions. > However, on rooted devices the use

[android-developers] AccountManager and storing credentials

2013-02-12 Thread saladbowl
OK - there is a lot of information out there on this subject, a lot of it is conflicting and some of it is probably outdated by now. I am hoping that some clear, concise answers will help clear my confusion. I am new to developing Android applications and I am currently developing a prototype.