I am trying to use Xamarin.Auth for a Facebook signin. It's all set up, but I am missing the last part. The Facebook signin is not my MainActivity, one has to click on a button in order to sign in. I don't know how to start the page for the signin. I have trying to follow this approach, but as my MainActivity isn't the Facebook signin page, it won't work. I have binded (I am following the MVVM pattern) the signin button and have implemented an interface in order to use DependencyService. My problem is when I have to implement the code of the platforms.
This is what I have tried on Android:
class LoginFBImpl : Activity, ILoginFB, IFacebookAuthenticationDelegate
{
public void LoginFB() //the method in the interface
{
var auth = new FacebookAuthenticator(FacebookAuthenticator.ClientId, FacebookAuthenticator.Scope, this);
var authenticator = auth.GetAuthenticator();
var intent = authenticator.GetUI(this);
StartActivity(intent); //Problem occurs here
}
public async void OnAuthenticationCompletedAsync(UserModel token)
{
var facebookService = new FacebookService();
var name = await facebookService.GetNameAsync(token.AccessToken);
var id = await facebookService.GetIdAsync(token.AccessToken);
var picture = await facebookService.GetPictureAsync(token.AccessToken);
}
public void OnAuthenticationCancelled()
{
}
public void OnAuthenticationFailed(string message, Exception exception)
{
}
}
iOS:
public class LoginFBImpl : UIViewController, ILoginFB, IFacebookAuthenticationDelegate
{
public void LoginFB()
{
var auth = new FacebookAuthenticator(FacebookAuthenticator.ClientId, FacebookAuthenticator.Scope, this);
var authenticator = auth.GetAuthenticator();
var viewController = authenticator.GetUI();
PresentViewController(viewController, true, null);
}
public async void OnAuthenticationCompletedAsync(UserModel token)
{
DismissViewController(true, null);
var facebookService = new FacebookService();
var name = await facebookService.GetNameAsync(token.AccessToken);
var id = await facebookService.GetIdAsync(token.AccessToken);
var picture = await facebookService.GetPictureAsync(token.AccessToken);
}
public void OnAuthenticationFailed(string message, Exception exception)
{
DismissViewController(true, null);
var alertController = new UIAlertController
{
Title = message,
Message = exception?.ToString()
};
PresentViewController(alertController, true, null);
}
public void OnAuthenticationCancelled()
{
DismissViewController(true, null);
var alertController = new UIAlertController
{
Title = "Authentication cancelled",
Message = "You didn't complete the authentication process"
};
PresentViewController(alertController, true, null);
}
}
I think it has something to do with the Activity/ViewController, but I don't know how to do it properly. When I run this I get: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'android.app.ActivityThread$ApplicationThread android.app.ActivityThread.getApplicationThread()' on a null object reference
on Android, and I am expecting something similar on iOS - Haven't tested it yet as I am working on Windows.