Using Identity from a native mobile app about identity HOT 14 CLOSED

You should direct the user to bitclout.com or yourbitcloutnode.com. bitclout.com embeds the identity iframe which you should be able to communicate with. If you run your own site, all it needs is an iframe with identity.

Open to ideas for making this easier if you have any

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Actually, you might just be able to load identity.bitclout.com/embed in a WKWebView and it will support everything you need. Give that a try

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@maebeam Are there any docs on this intended usage (Iframe + message posting)? Just a sentence or three would be very helpful.

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I think what you want is a webview of /embed and WKWebView.evaluateJavaScript. We want to encourage app developers to use identity.bitclout.com to log users in and sign transactions so that the user has a single place to manage all of their identities and they don't need to enter their seed phrases into random apps/websites.

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For example: on a WKWebView of /embed, run

webView.evaluateJavaScript('
  window.postMessage({
    service: 'identity',
    id: 'uuid-v4',
    method: 'sign',
    transacitonHex: '12345',
  })
');

You'll need to submit a pull request to this repo to support a "webkit embed view" that sends responses to webkit instead of to the parent window. This could be triggered with /embed?webkit=true or even /webkit-embed if the logic diverges significantly. For example:

webView.configuration.userContentController.add(self, name: "jsHandler")

and

window.webkit.messageHandlers.jsHandler.postMessage("trigger from JS");

If you want to get fancy you can make a Swift library that does this all behind the scenes so other app developers don't need to set any of this up.

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The intended usage for this service in a web browser is very easy. Just put /embed in an iframe for signing transactions. For logging users in, use window.open('/log-in') and listen for a response.

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Actually, you might just be able to load identity.bitclout.com/embed in a WKWebView and it will support everything you need. Give that a try

I've tried this, but it immediately redirects to https://bitclout.com

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(Sorry if this is off topic)

I'm trying to implement login with BitClout in a web app, but when I window.open identity.bitclout.com/log-in I just get a blank page.

Are there any particular parameters I need to pass over from my own domain or other setup I need to do?

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I've been testing on Android (using a Webview within my app) and I have the same issue as @andyboyd, when I navigate to identity.bitclout.com or any of the paths such as /embed it redirects to bitclout.com due to the code at the start of ngOnInit in the app component. I'm guessing these checks are there for security purposes? They may need to be changed to allow Webviews to work.

Working around that issue on localhost I've made some progress. Though I've had to deal with responding to events such as initialize being fired out as they expect bitclout.com to be responding to them otherwise the rest of the code doesn't execute.

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Not sure if it's helpful or not, but I was able to get Login with BitClout working for my web app, I posted a very basic POC here:
https://github.com/mubashariqbal/login-with-bitclout

Might be helpful for mobile apps developers too.

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@ryanjohn1 @andyboyd i am happy to remove the redirect. it's not for security, just convenience.

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but i am pretty sure you will still need to add support for calling webkit handlers instead of parent.postMessage

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