Appreciate the prompt response.
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com>wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 5:33 PM, cuil yahoo <cuilya...@gmail.com> 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. (: > > > 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
