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!Friendica Support I'm trying to use some #friendica instances in some #Android apps (like #andstatus but it is reproducible in others too) and fail to connect the apps to #friendica. What happens: (a) App will redirect me to the login screen of my instance in some browser or web view. (b) I will log in there. (c) #friendica will provide me with a message whether or not I want to authenticate the app to have access to my data. (d) Expectation would be that I get redirected to the app for all further steps. In reality, nothing happens - I just keep on tapping that "Yes" button but still stay in the browser view.
Is that a known issue? It seems to work in *some* browsers but not in all, and it doesn't work in apps like #andstatus that don't allow for / use a different browser. Any ideas?
#friendica #Android #AndStatus !Friendica Support
Michael Vogel
Michael Vogel  
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It is working here. I could imagine some browser issues on your side. Have you tried - for example - Tusky?
Kristian
Kristian  
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@Michael Vogel Yes, tried it with Tusky too, on my device. In Tusky, it doesn't work with system webview, Bromite/Chromium and Brave (which are my primary browsers); only managed it to work using Midori Lite installed from f-droid. In Tusky, however, it seems the app at least is capable of using an external browser for that. AndStatus apparently relies upon default webview, and for this, it doesn't work. Not really sure how to debug this. 😑️
@Michael Vogel
Michael Vogel
Michael Vogel  
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Do you have got a Pleroma or Mastodon account? it would be nice to see if this problem exists there as well. If not then possibly we can do something about this in Friendica. In the other case I sadly can only refer you to the app developers.

I know that the AndStatus is really fast in answering requests, so possible he can help you anyway hiere.
Kristian
Kristian  
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@Michael Vogel I use Mastodon regularly too and havne't seen something like this with any of the Mastodon accounts so far. I'm not really sure what needs to happen in order to redirect from the web view to the actual app. Some sort of Android intent possibly?
@Michael Vogel
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