Show only social sign in using Authenticator

[sowens-csd]

I'm using Cognito for social authentication but don't want to allow the user to create their own account. They should instead use one of the configured social authentication services. I haven't been able to find a way to configure it to disable the Cognito authentication and display just the social login buttons. I know I could recreate the buttons but before I did that I wanted to check if I was missing something obvious.

[Equartey]

Hey @sowens-csd,

Can you provide more context of your environment?

Are you using our Authenticator project?

[sowens-csd]

Yes. I have a working Flutter app using the Authenticator widget from:

import 'package:amplify_authenticator/amplify_authenticator.dart';

That successfully displays the login form and if I select one of the social buttons the login is successful. I'd like to be able to customize the displayed form to only display the social login buttons, or have access to those buttons so I could use them on my own form.

[Equartey]

Hey @sowens-csd,

While we do offer methods to override the login form, reference to example. I'm not seeing an easy way to implement a view using only social sign in buttons.

This seems to be a shortcoming with the types we are exposing under the hood. I'll continue to investigate and for now will mark this as a feature request.

[sowens-csd]

Sounds good, thanks for following up. I'll implement that myself then, just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing the easy way. Would you like to leave this open to track the feature request?

[Equartey]

Let's leave it open to track interest.

In the meantime, the Authenticator package might be overkill if your use case is strictly Social login. If you're recreating the social buttons yourself, I would also consider removing the authenticator as a dependency.

[minerasoft]

Hello, any updates on this? It would be very convenient to have the option to enable only social auth in the SignInForm. Or an alternate way to support the same requirement. Thanks

[Equartey]

Hi @minerasoft,

No updates at the moment, but it's good to see more interest on this issue. We will continue to monitor and update this issue as we have updates. Thanks

[aouicher]

Hi @Equartey it could be great to be able to have only social provider(s). Thank you

[dropik]

+1 for this feature request. The thing is that it's not just about buttons. But it's much more about keeping access/refresh tokens, and delegating all the auth flow logic to Amplify without reimplementing it by yourself. So that would be really great to see an easy option to disable standard login mechanism. Thank you.