Oauth flow not triggered on device

Former Member over 7 years ago

Hello.

I've been developing a watch face that uses background services (thanks for the great support on this forum) and triggers an oauth flow. Everything works perfectly on the simulator: the first time the watch face is opened the background service triggers the oauth flow. However this never happens on the real device (Fenix 5). I tried to uninstall and then install it again but the problem persists.

Any guidance is welcome.

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Former Member over 7 years ago in reply to jim_m_58 +1

If whit a while back you mean more than 2 years ago then yes, you're right.

I just created a bug report. I really think this is a problem that discourages innovation on garmin apps. Google is one of…

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Former Member over 7 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

I don't mean other CIQ apps, sorry for the confusion. I mean other android and IOS apps are able to complete oauth flows, so the garmin companion app should be able to do it too. I'm pretty sure android provides apis to retrieve the keys from the browser once the flow completes.

jim_m_58 over 7 years ago in reply to Former Member

See this post and look at the section on Google OAuth.

https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/f/discussion/4074/known-issues-thread

If you search for "google oauth" here, you'll find more info.

Here's another one with the error you describe:

https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/f/discussion/6201/makeoauthrequest-in-connectiq-simulator/41307#41307

Former Member over 7 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Why did they had to remove them? I can think in alternatives. Less convenient, a bit harder and more error prone, but still doable. Knowing that you can open a web browser window you can always trigger another Auth flows.

It can be an stopper if you are developing a new app, but to the extent to retire an existing one?

jim_m_58 over 7 years ago in reply to Former Member

This was something Google did, not CIQ.

Former Member over 7 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

I don't understand what do you mean.

Yes, Google changed conditions, but we as developers can choose to find workarounds. If I had an already working application I will for sure look for a workaround.

And CIQ is baked by a company, they should be able to look for alternatives. It is doable.

8296532 over 6 years ago in reply to Former Member

Did you find some workaround? Setting some headers in oauth request or something? I wanted to build some simple widget to get data from google sheets but no success. I logged in a simulator and hardcoded the refresh token to my app, which is not really the way I wanted.