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Re:Firebase Adds PhoneGap Integration by kumar303 on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @03:31PM (#5560276)
Is this dark magic? :) How does it do oauth without a domain? If you build an apk for Android how does the authentication step grant your app an oauth token?

Does it use a shared firebase server to grant access? If so, how is that secure between unrelated firebase apps?

I tried the demo but it didn't work when running file://.../index.html. The login buttons did nothing.

Re:Firebase Adds PhoneGap Integration by kumar303 on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @03:36PM (#5560310)
I guess it would use a provided intermediate server like the one Facebook offers: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/howtos/login/login-for-...