Introduction

Hey, I am Michael (WcaleNieWolny) 👋,

After a month of hard (and a bit painful 🙃) work, I am pleased to announce the first release of the Capacitor Social Login. This plugin is designed to assist in handling both Google and Apple Login on iOS and Android. Furthermore, together with Martin, we have been working on some unique features that include:

The introduction of Login with Apple on Android
The adoption of the new Google Credentials API
The addition of detailed documentation

First, let’s discuss the major innovation of ‘Login with Apple’ on Android. This was non-trivial, as Apple’s SDK doesn’t provide this functionality. I used this article as my reference point, but I changed it a little in order to make it more secure. The flow I ended up looks like this:

Unfortunately, it requires a backend and some modifications to your’s app code, but it’s the best I could do.

Next, I attempted to implement Google Login on Android. As it turns out, CodetrixStudio’s CapacitorGoogleAuth uses a soon-to-be deprecated GMS library. As a result of this GMS library being considered legacy, I decided to use the CredentialManager. This helped simply the login flow and it removed the annoying error 10 🎉

Documentation

Lastly, I wrote some amazing ✨ documentation. I spent a lot of time making sure that the docs were accurate and extensive. The docs include a detailed guide on setting both Apple and Google. I also provided an example backend for Login with Apple 🍎

Feel free to check out the Apple and Google guides!