OAuthActivity shows blank screen after redirect

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Click Preferences
2. Set username
3. Click OAuth checkbox
4. Authenticate with Twitter
5. Wait for redirect

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I want the OAuthActivity to show some form of animated progress instead of a 
completely black background with nothing on it.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by torgny.b...@gmail.com on 16 Jul 2010 at 7:31

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As I understand, this are some seconds of blank screen?!
I think this is some memory swapping delay. - I don't have it on N1.

I don't think it's worth spending time on this issue... But of course we may 
try to get rid of that additional OAuthActivity - moving everything to 
PreferencesActivity...

So I propose to set this isuue to "Priority-Low", because "The best is the 
enemy of the good" :-)

Anyway solving this issue may be a good start for any developer-volunteer ;-)

Original comment by yvo...@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2010 at 11:28

• Added labels: Priority-Low
• Removed labels: Priority-High

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I have begun work on a new Activity, called AuthenticateActivity which will 
house the entire process. That way we do not need to use the settings screen at 
all. I was thinking something very simple, an Authenticate button, and two 
graphics indicating where in the process the user is, a Twitter icon, and an 
AndTweet icon, they light up when the application has processed the information 
accordingly.

What do you think? I can send you a demo of it if you want?

Original comment by torgny.b...@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2010 at 2:25

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I think it would be good if you create not "Authentication Activity", but 
rather activity to manage User Accounts, so it may be used to:
- add/edit/delete Account (it may be OAuth or not... maybe in the future - not 
only Twitter.com)
- list, select/switch current User account 
...and I will add methods to TwitterUser to list/add/delete accounts ?

By the way, GoogleMail in Froyo has that small clickable email that brings you 
to the list of accounts, where you can switch current mail account ...

Implemented: 
In Ra0710a97b9 I've added methods to the TwitterUser to list existing accounts, 
delete account. (New accounts are being added automatically).

Original comment by yvo...@gmail.com on 20 Jul 2010 at 9:30

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As an addition to my previous comment about Managing user accounts:
Hi, as soon as I could express my wish :-) I was able to find a way 
and an example of how to do this: "Acconts & sync settings". 

1. Sample Sync Adapter: 
http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/SampleSyncAdapter/inde... 
"This sample demonstrates how an application can communicate with a 
cloud-based service and synchronize its data with data stored locally 
in a content provider. The sample uses two related parts of the 
Android framework — the account manager (http://developer.android.com/ 
reference/android/accounts/AccountManager.html) and the 
synchronization manager (through a sync adapter)." 

AndTweet have both it's "authenticator" and "syncronization service", 
we need "only" :-) 
to integrate them here! 

2. One related answer: "Android - How to Create Intent to open the 
activity that displays the “Accounts & Sync settings” screen": 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3010103/android-how-to-create-inte... 

Original comment by yvo...@gmail.com on 25 Feb 2011 at 7:23

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Having the same issue. Probably copy the working authentication procedure from 
nanotweeter ;) ?

Original comment by tableYou...@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2011 at 11:36

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You may try to do this ;-)
We're open :-)

Original comment by yvo...@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2011 at 1:17

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Hi, I've inspected the code once more and found a bug that caused this black 
blank screen. This "bug" is a result of not very correct integration of other 
project's OAuth code into AndTweet :-)
Now I'm in the process of refactoring the code in order to make it simpler and 
clearer... and I hope to publish it soon...

Original comment by yvo...@gmail.com on 22 Mar 2011 at 2:49

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Awesome news, yvolk1!

Original comment by torgny.b...@gmail.com on 23 Mar 2011 at 1:23

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The problem was fixed in Revision: eaf3685f5001
Today I've tried to look up any new version of OAuth library that we're 
using(http://code.google.com/p/oauth-signpost/) and was disappointed to see 
that it was not updated more than a year and that project "is currently 
unmaintained" :-(

I found another interesting "OAuth" library (see the article "OAuth in Android 
using the Google APIs Client Library for Java", 
http://blog.doityourselfandroid.com/2011/04/12/oauth-android-google-apis-client-
library-java/ ) but it's in Alpha state yet plus there are no ready to use 
Twitter examples for it... so I guess we will stay with the Signpost OAuth 
library for some time...

Original comment by yvo...@gmail.com on 16 Apr 2011 at 6:47

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