Show HN: Add GCM to your Android app in 5 minutes

habosa · on Dec 9, 2015

EasyGoogle is an experiment of mine to make the common use cases for Google APIs dead simple on Android. You can add any of the features below in just a minute or two:

  * Google Sign In
  * Google App Invites (email/sms user-to-user invites)
  * Google Cloud Messaging (my favorite since it's hard to get right)
  * SmartLock for Passwords (cross-device password sync, used by Netflix, NYTimes, and others)

Would love feedback, and PRs are welcome!

on_and_off · on Dec 14, 2015

I am taking over a legacy implementation of Google Sign-In and trying to switch it to the new 8.3 one (because asking for 'get contacts' just suck terribly). I don't really need a lib such as easy google though, I would have preferred more documentation on how it is recommended to handle some basic use cases.

For example : login in a first loginActivity then logout in another. Am I supposed to keep the GoogleApiClient somewhere at Application scope or to recreate it in each screen where I want to interact with it ?

habosa · on Dec 14, 2015

Totally agree, you shouldn't (and don't) have to use a lib like easygoogle to get Google Sign In implemented correctly on Android!

In the multi-activity situation you will want to re-instantiate your GoogleApiClient in each Activity. If you use the function enableAutoManage that keeps it pretty lightweight, you don't need to implement ConnectionCallbacks (since the new API does not have the notion of connection == signed in) and you can have a one-line implementation of OnConnectionFailedListener.

If you have a question about any of this, raise an issue on this repo (https://github.com/googlesamples/google-services) and I'll answer it.