Users without a twitter account cannot use firetweet if twitter is blocked for that country

[sunshine19090]

1. User has only gmail account
2. User will not be able to sign in so the user will use register button to create account. This shows a pop-up screen with the options of the app that could help create an account like Browser, Chrome and Firetweet. (I uninstalled twitter in my phone.)
3. Choosing Firetweet just takes me back to Sign In screen.
4. Choosing Chrome opens a browser window with twitter sign up page which wouldn't be useful for the users where twitter is blocked.

[teamlantern]

Great catch @sheena3! I guess we have to add our own account creation screen.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:22 AM, sheena3 notifications@github.com wrote:

1. User has only gmail account
2. User will not be able to sign in so the user will use register button to create account. This shows a pop-up screen with the options of the app that could help create an account like Browser, Chrome and Firetweet. (I uninstalled twitter in my phone.)
3. Choosing Firetweet just takes me back to Sign In screen.
4. Choosing Chrome opens a browser window with twitter sign up page which wouldn't be useful for the users where twitter is blocked.

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[atavism]

An update on this: I modified the sign-in screen, when you click on the Register button, instead of displaying a menu, to immediately present a WebView that loads https://twitter.com/signup now. Unfortunately, a dilemma I encountered: the HTTP proxy settings we set inside FireTweet, using ProxySelector, when the app first launches, are ignored. There's a workaround, however, I already mostly integrated, that uses some clever techniques to set the mProxyHost field in every URL request the WebView makes. We should probably split it off into its own library given its general usefulness. Here's an overview: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4488338/webview-android-proxy (and the class based on it https://github.com/getlantern/firetweet/blob/master/twidere/src/main/java/org/mariotaku/twidere/proxy/ProxySettings.java). It's similar to https://github.com/abeluck/OnionKit/blob/master/libonionkit/src/info/guardianproject/onionkit/web/WebkitProxy.java -- this appears to successfully configure the WebView proxy settings for Android versions 3.0 and up. I've also been looking at the Android Proxy Project which takes advantage of these methods.

[myleshorton]

Sounds great @atavism!

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 9:56 AM, atavism notifications@github.com wrote:

An update on this: I modified the sign-in screen, when you click on the Register button, instead of displaying a menu, to immediately present a WebView that loads https://twitter.com/signup now. Unfortunately, a dilemma I encountered: the HTTP proxy settings we set inside FireTweet, using ProxySelector https://developer.android.com/reference/java/net/ProxySelector.html, when the app first launches, are ignored. There's a workaround, however, I already mostly integrated, that uses some clever techniques to set the mProxyHost field in every URL request the WebView makes. We should probably split off into its own library given its general usefulness. Here's an overview: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4488338/webview-android-proxy which is similar to https://github.com/abeluck/OnionKit/blob/master/libonionkit/src/info/guardianproject/onionkit/web/WebkitProxy.java https://github.com/abeluck/OnionKit/blob/master/libonionkit/src/info/guardianproject/onionk%20it/web/WebkitProxy.java -- this appears to successfully configure the WebView proxy settings for Android versions 3.0 and up. I've also been looking at the Android Proxy Project https://github.com/shouldit/android-proxy which takes advantage of these methods.

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[atavism]

OK, I fixed this over the weekend. When you click on Register, a WebView should always popup now, and then there's a Sign Up with Twitter option. WebView proxy settings are updated prior to this using the aforementioned method.

[myleshorton]

Very cool!

[sunshine19090]

@atavism - I used a new gmail account to register in twitter. I am able to register but how can I make sure that it is going through a proxy connection?

Another problem is, after going through the account setup process, it is still in the webview and opens like an official twitter app instead of Firetweet. Screenshot attached.

If the user closes the app and reopens it again, then it goes to Firetweet. I still feel that it should directly take the user to FireTweet after the signup process.

[sunshine19090]

Shall we remove the 3 icons that is displayed at the top right corner in the Sign In screen? I don't see anything useful for the user there.