AddAccount is not called from AbstractAccountAuthenticator implementation from MainActivity
I am following the tutorial for adding user account to Android AccountManager.
In my main activity, I have the following method:
private void addNewAccount(String accountType, String authTokenType) {
Log.d(TAG,"addNewAccount called");
final AccountManagerFuture<Bundle> future = mAccountManager.addAccount(accountType, authTokenType, null, null, this, new AccountManagerCallback<Bundle>() {
@Override
public void run(AccountManagerFuture<Bundle> future) {
try {
Bundle bnd = future.getResult();
Log.d("ACME", "AddNewAccount Bundle is " + bnd);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}, null);
}
This method gets called as I can see the log in logcat. Now my implementation of AbstractAccountAuthenticator looks like this:
public class AcmeAuthenticator extends AbstractAccountAuthenticator {
private String TAG = "AcmeAuthenticator";
private final Context mContext;
public AcmeAuthenticator(Context context) {
super(context);
this.mContext = context;
}
@Override
public Bundle addAccount(AccountAuthenticatorResponse response, String accountType, String authTokenType, String[] requiredFeatures, Bundle options) throws NetworkErrorException {
Log.d("acme", TAG + "> addAccount");
final Intent intent = new Intent(mContext, AuthenticatorActivity.class);
intent.putExtra(AuthenticatorActivity.ARG_ACCOUNT_TYPE, accountType);
intent.putExtra(AuthenticatorActivity.ARG_AUTH_TYPE, authTokenType);
intent.putExtra(AuthenticatorActivity.ARG_IS_ADDING_NEW_ACCOUNT, true);
intent.putExtra(AccountManager.KEY_ACCOUNT_AUTHENTICATOR_RESPONSE, response);
final Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
bundle.putParcelable(AccountManager.KEY_INTENT, intent);
return bundle;
}
The above method is never called. Below is the service I created for it:
public class AcmeAuthenticatorService extends Service {
@Override
public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
AcmeAuthenticator authenticator = new AcmeAuthenticator(this);
return authenticator.getIBinder();
}
}
And my explicit definition looks like this:
<activity android:name="com.exercise.accountmanagerstudy.accountAuthenticator.AuthenticatorActivity" android:label="@string/login_label"/>
<service android:name=".accountAuthenticator.AcmeAuthenticatorService">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.accounts.AccountAuthenticator" />
</intent-filter>
<meta-data android:name="android.accounts.AccountAuthenticator"
android:resource="@xml/authenticator" />
</service>
<!-- client -->
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.USE_CREDENTIALS"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.MANAGE_ACCOUNTS"/>
<!-- Authenticator -->
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.AUTHENTICATE_ACCOUNTS"/>
I am not getting compiler errors, the override of addAccount in the AbstractAccountAuthenticator implementation is not called. from the main addNewAccount method. I researched several links here and here . Any help would be appreciated.
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Ok, so I finally figured it out. Apparently the authenticator.xml file for AcmeAuthenticator has a field called accountType:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<account-authenticator
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:accountType="com.exercise.accountmanagerstudy"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
android:smallIcon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
android:label="@string/label"
android:accountPreferences="@xml/prefs"/>
When I called addNewAccount in my main activity, I had to pass the exact value of the accountType in the above xml as the accountType argument. Ugh, it really kept me busy and I hope it helps someone else :-).
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