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Social login with Ionic

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David East
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1,244
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Language
English
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Summary

An Ionic and Cordova tutorial explains how to implement Firebase-based social login in a hybrid mobile app while minimizing direct interaction with Cordova’s underlying complexity. It outlines creating an Ionic tabs project, adding Android and iOS platforms, installing AngularFire and the Cordova InAppBrowser plugin, and verifying builds in emulators or Ionic Labs. Firebase is configured by including its JavaScript libraries, registering AngularFire as a module dependency, and creating injectable Firebase and authentication services. The example uses Google OAuth, requiring API credentials to be configured in Firebase, then adds a login controller, template, and route that authenticate users and redirect successful logins to the dashboard. Because native mobile environments do not natively support browser popups, the InAppBrowser plugin automatically handles the window opened by Firebase’s OAuth popup method, displaying the provider’s login page within the app.

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