Is there a way to generate a user id for new users like 'yik yak' does, removing the need of a login id and password? i really want to implement this as the app i am creating is not e-commerce so there is no need for such tight security.
Also would there be a way to display the generated user so users could add each other as friends?
I am not sure about a user ID, but I have used this to generate a device specific ID for similar purposes to what your are describing.
There is a way to do this using the faker library: https://www.bloco.io/blog/2015/faker-a-library-to-generate-fake-data-for-java-android
Please follow their tutorial.
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So I am currently struggling with 3 aspects related to email verification and setting it up in a way where when user clicks link in email he / she goes to app where I can then check if email was verified and show new view, aka dynamic linking?
1) I assume correct way to achieve this is by using User.sendEmailVerification(completion) ? I am struggling with setting up the completion step and would appreciate if someone could guide me through the process, also I am not 100% sure that this configures the deeplink, I might've miss-understood it.
2) If my assumption above is wrong, do I need to set up a dynamic link in firebase and then in my email templates section set it as url instead of default one i.e. myApp.firebaseapp.com/__/auth etc... If I do it this way I can retrieve token for verifying user, do I need to perform a call in app to post it to firebase somehow once I have it?
3) If I do need to use approach no.2, is there a way to use my own domain for dynamic links? i.e. I can set up small landing page with app-associate file for iOS and equivalent for Android, will this be enough? Do I miss out on any things like analytics here? Would you recommend for or against using custom domain for dynamic links?
https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/ios/passing-state-in-email-actions is the primary guide for this.
user.sendEmailVerification(withActionCodeSettings:actionCodeSettings) - see the snippet in the doc above.
You need to support Dynamic Links, that is how the user is returned to your app.
Your own domain is not necessary.
In my app I want users to sign themselves up/in (through user pool I created) or through facebook. I have done this first approach and looking at facebook authentication now. Basically, I retrieve user info such as name, email, gender etc but I also want them to fill in missing information such as DOB, location or later on, if they wish, they should be able to modify those attributes. How can I achieve this ? Should I have a DynamoDB table and populate it with those attributes and let them modify it later ? Thanks for advice.
In addition to David's answer, you could use Cognito Sync to store each of those attributes as a record within a single dataset. Since you mentioned you have a Facebook provider linked, those'll be accessible cross devices and only visible to the owning user.
Dynamo is also a totally viable option, you could use Cognito's IAM permissions to make sure users can only see/update their own rows.
We added support for Federation through Facebook, Google and LoginWithAmazon for User Pools. This will create a user in user pool when a user logs in with federation. You can also capture the attributes from Facebook using the attribute mapping feature.
I would suggest aws cognito to help track the user attributes as you have e described https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/ it has a lot of those attributes built in and also allows you to create custom attributes.
I am new in android. I am developing android app and using http://parse.com API. I want to implement two types of user Student and Company. Basic signup form has the same fields. Later, I want to add additional information related to the user and specific for each type. Now, problem how to save user information for different type of users?
Make a column of userType in parse user table to differentiate user category.
And save user type during sign up and it's information.
I am also using this method because my application also has three end user.
This is working properly for me.
Hope this may helpful for you.
I am currently developing an app for android 2.2 or above.
I want to allow the user to enable a login before having access to the app. I want to allow the user to choose between various types of login like password, pin or pattern.
I was wondering if would be possible to add a pattern lock to my own app. Is there a plugin I can use to create one or use android's pattern lock for my own app. I only want this for the app I don't want it to change how the actual device is locked.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
I dont think there is a widget for this. I would create a matrix of images 3x3 give them each a listener and keep track of the order the user presses them. Then take the order, 2,3,6,5,8 for example, save them as a string "23658" this is the password! hash and save that somewhere. whenever a user inputs the button order compare the input hash to the saved one.
If any body is still searching for the answer, I found this library which is pretty useful and much better than the android-lockpattern, hosted on GitHub
There is source for this though:
http://code.google.com/p/android-lockpattern/source/browse/src/group/pals/android/lib/ui/lockpattern/widget/LockPatternUtils.java?r=7470bc287cba61198430e3d8aff32196bb5824a0
What is the best way to persist a users info in an android app? I have a login screen that uses a web service to authenticate the user and return basic user info.
I don't care about saving the username/password, but I do need things like a couple of integer ID fields (patientID and personID) and a first and last name.
I don't want the user to have to login every time they load the app. Someone suggested I use SQL lite to store the info, is this the best way or is there a more light weight solution?
Use SharedPreferences
refer this link also
Take a look at the answers and comments to this question: Android: Storing username and password?