My bad! type="com.google" does return google app accounts. I had a
gmail.com filter, which I totally forgot about. Google App accounts can
authenticate with GAE just as well as regular Gmail accounts - just as the
documentation says.
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Rishi Arora <rishi.ar...@ship-rack.com>wrote:
> I have an android app that authenticates with my GAE app using "Google
> Accounts" authentication. Here's a snippet from app engine documentation:
> "Google Accounts: is Google's unified sign-in system. All a user needs is a
> valid email address (it doesn't need to be a Gmail address!) to sign up for
> a Google Account**"
>
> I use the android AccountManager.getAccountsByType('com.google") call to
> determine all the eligible accounts on the android device, that can be used
> to authenticate with my GAE app. However, the getAccountsByType only
> returns a list of Gmail accounts, and omits google app accounts on private
> domains. I was hoping that since my GAE authentication scheme uses "Google
> Accounts", and the snippet above says "it doesn't need to be a Gmal
> address", that the getAccountsByType android API will return google app
> accounts as well, which users could use against my GAE app. Anyone know why
> my getAccountsByType() API is behaving this way? Is there a different type
> string - other than "com.google" that I need to pass to get google app
> accounts hosted on private domains?
>
> Thanks
> - Rishi
>
>
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