android google play account auth

Question

Is there any way to retrieve current google play logged user on an android device?

I want to make an application that takes this username or userid from android and send it to one of my servers and like this authentificate the user on my service.

I know there are multiple ways to auth trough facebook, twitter, google and many other providers, but i want to make it work without asking username and password.

Thanks

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 16 '13 at 15:42

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Yes, but you have you add a premission request in the manfiest

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS"></uses-permission>

Then you can use the folloing method to get an array of all the account configured on the device:

Account[] accounts = ((AccountManager) getSystemService(ACCOUNT_SERVICE)).getAccounts();

answered Mar 16 '13 at 15:42

Kirill Kulakov

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what if the user has configured 2 google accounts? let's say he's using 1 for google play and another just for email. How do i know which one to pick. Also it seems like account manager regenerates the token, how can i validate the token on my server side? :| – IceDevil Mar 16 '13 at 16:24
Check this out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2720315/what-should-i-use-android-accountmanager-for – Kirill Kulakov Mar 16 '13 at 16:28

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