If you're asking if App Engine can have a built in service for supporting login via Twitter/Facebook: this isn't something we are planning to do. You're going to have to buckle down and refactor your auth system. It's going to hurt in the short term, but that's why the world needs us.
-- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine plus.ikailan.com | twitter.com/ikai On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Devraj Mukherjee <dev...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.
