Posted by Diego Zavala – Product Supervisor, Lee Campbell – Tech Lead
Right now, we’re glad to announce the alpha launch of Credential Supervisor, a brand new Jetpack API that enables app builders to simplify their customers’ authentication journey, whereas additionally growing safety with help of passkeys.
Credential Supervisor helps a number of sign-in strategies, similar to username/password, passkeys, and federated sign-in options (e.g., Signal-in with Google) in a single API, thus simplifying the combination for builders. Moreover, for customers, Credential Supervisor unifies the sign-in interface throughout authentication strategies, making it clearer and simpler for customers to sign-in to apps, whatever the technique they select.
Since our replace in October 2022, we’ve been increasing help for passkeys – the brand new business normal for passwordless authentication – throughout Android and Chrome. Credential Supervisor permits customers to create passkeys and retailer them in Google Password Supervisor. Their passkeys will sync throughout all of their units which can be signed in to the identical Google Account, permitting customers to seamlessly sign up to apps that help passkeys throughout these units.
Please keep tuned for extra updates from us all through this yr, as we roll out third-party password supervisor help to combine with Credential Supervisor.
The advantages of Credential Supervisor
Customers face a number of sign-in strategies and in a lot of these circumstances the sign-in strategies are parallel methods for the person to get into the identical account. Credential Supervisor aggregates all obtainable sign-in strategies for the app into one record, whereas deduplicating entries for a similar account. This simplification permits customers to give attention to choosing the account with no need perceive the underlying sign-in expertise:
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Add Credential Supervisor to your app
To make sign-in simpler in your app use Credential Supervisor. Go to this Android Developer information to be taught extra.
Share suggestions
We would love to listen to your inputs throughout this alpha launch, so please tell us about your expertise integrating with Credential Supervisor, utilizing passkeys, or another suggestions you may need:
