Home screen app (android) facebook login opens browser

Question

I'm working on a website that is focused on mobile users and uses a manifest to be opened standalone when added to the home screen. This works well, except for the Facebook login function. Whenever I try to login it opens the Facebook link in the browser outside the app. I then have to manually return to the app and reload the page to be logged on.

How can I stay inside the standalone app when logging in?

I tried using window.location as explained in this popular answer but no change. I also tried using window.open as explained here but again, no luck.

You can try it on this test page that has an adjusted manifest and login option to stay inside the test page. I used a Samsung Galaxy S5 for testing.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 01 '18 at 23:43

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You should not stay inside your app while logging.

Redirecting the user to the Identity provider (Facebook) in your case it is the normal life-cycle of an Oauth2 login or Single Sign On login. On the OAuth2 server you can set the redirect url which is the address you want the user to be send after login.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/web#redirecturl

Login to your facebook app account: https://developers.facebook.com/apps and change the redirect url from your app control panel.

answered Jan 01 '18 at 23:43

albert

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The flow works, i am redirected to my own page. But i'm no longer in my standalone homescreen app, but in the regular browser. – Hugo Delsing Jan 02 '18 at 06:37
Alright, I guess it's just something for my phone then. Thanks for the effort and testing! – Hugo Delsing Jan 07 '18 at 11:58
@HugoDelsing Did you find a solution for this? I'm having the exact problem. – Diego Carrion Jun 15 '18 at 21:51
It's phone specific diego. The `window.location` works on all phones I tried accept my galaxy s5. – Hugo Delsing Jun 16 '18 at 10:39

Home screen app (android) facebook login opens browser

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