Hi all, We are building an Application that we hope to run on AppEngine, it will feature iOS and Android clients as well as a Web, Mobile Web interfaces. The native mobile applications will use the REST services to communicate with the server.
The Application is a member based application, and most functions require the user to be logged in. Following the "social login" trends, we would like to support popular social services for users to be able to login to our application. Our understanding is that AppEngine's federated login currently only supports OpenID and OAuth is experimentally supported for Google Accounts only? OAuth seems to be better supported for native applications on mobile applications, thanks to projects like Google Toolbox for Mac/OSX. We have the added complication of maintaining our current authentication system, which we are looking at turning into an OAuth service to make it uniform. Looking at some third party OAuth client libraries, suggest that we can implement OAuth for AppEngine apps but we loose some of the nice features like managed Authentication via app.yaml Our questions are - Is it likely that AppEngine will support OAuth authentication for other providers in the near future (I did dig around the Roadmap and didn't find anything mentioned there)? - Alternatively can OpenID authentication be used on native Mobile applications (Android, iOS) and if yes any pointers to docs? Thanks for your time. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
