How To Integrate Huawei Account Kit to a Cordova Project?
This article includes information about how to integrate Huawei Cordova Account plugin to a Cordova project and how to use some APIs that Huawei Account Kit provides.
The Cordova Account plugin provides adaption code used for the HUAWEI Account Kit to use in Cordova platform. HUAWEI Account Kit enables developers to use simple, secure, and quick sign-in and authorization functions to save time from long authorization periods and it’s two factor authentication(password authentication and mobile number authentication) process keeps users informations safe.
Service Features
- Quick and standard
Huawei Account Kit allows you to connect to the Huawei ecosystem using your HUAWEI ID from a range of devices. This range of devices is not limitted with mobile phones, you can also easily access applications on tablets, wearables, and smart displays by using Huawei ID.
- Massive user base and global services
Huawei Account Kit serves 190+ countries and regions worldwide. Users can also use HUAWEI ID to quickly sign in to apps. For details about supported regions/countries please refer here from official documentation.
- Secure, reliable, and compliant with international standards
Complies with international standards and protocols (such as OAuth2.0 and OpenID Connect), and supports two-factor authentication to ensure high security.
Integrating Huawei Account Kit to a Cordova Project
Preperations
- You should prepare your development environment by following “Preparing the Development Environment” guide from official documentation.
- To be able to use Huawei Cordova Account Plugin you shoud register as a Huawei developer and follow “Configuring App Information in AppGallery Connect” guide from official documentation.
Integrating Cordova Account Plugin
1- You can install the plugin through npm.
- Run the following command in the root directory of your Cordova project to install it through npm.
2- You should check if the Cordova Account Plugin successfully added to “plugin” folder of the root directory of your cordova project.
3- You should add agconnect-services.json(downloaded from AppGallery Connect), jks and build.json files to your projects root directory.
- Please refer following code snippet for build.json file.
Now the integration part is done and you are ready to use the Cordova Account Plugin in your Cordova project.
Use Cordova Account Plugin APIs
Signing-In with Huawei ID
To allow users securely signing-in with Huawei ID, you should use signIn method of HMSAccount module. When this method called for the first time for a user, a Huawei ID authorization interface will be shows up and user should click “Authorize and Login” button with necessary permission checks. After signing in for the first time, when users try to sign in again, the authorization screen will not show up again, unless they revoke the authorization.
When sign-in operation is successfull, user information will be returned as AuthHuaweiID object, otherwise an exception will be returned.
Signing-Out from Huawei ID
signOut method is used to allow user signing-out from Huawei ID. But it does not clear user information permenantly. The authorization information is not cleared, so when signIn method called again the application will not interact with the authorization interface.
If the user signed out successfully, the promise is resolved . Otherwise it is rejected.
Silently Signing-In with Huawei ID
Authorization is required only at the first sign-in to your app using a HUAWEI ID. The silentSignIn method allows to using the same HUAWEI ID without authorization for subsequent sign-ins.
In case of silentSignIn is successfull, user information will be returned via a AuthHuaweiId object. Otherwise exception object is returned.
Canceling Huawei ID Authorization
To improve privacy and security, users are allowed to revoke authorization on your app. As mentioned before, when user firstly signing-ins, a Huawei ID authorization interface will be shows up. But for other calls of signIn method, the authorization interface will not be shows up because authorization information is not deleted with signOut method call or others. To clear authorization information cancelAuthorization method should be called and revoke authorization.
If the user cancels an authorization successfully, the promise will be resolved and authorization information will be deleted; otherwise exception object will be returned.
Automatically Retrieving SMS Verification Code
To allow your app to use SMS verification and verify the user identity using an SMS verification code you should integrate the HMSReadSmsManager module of Huawei Cordova Account Plugin. Without any need to apply for the SMS read permission, your app can automatically read the SMS verification code when this module is used.
After smsVerificationCode method of HMSReadSmsManager module called, app starts to listen right formatted messages, and catch them. There is five minutes timing out period, if the right formatted message is catched in this period of time, message will be returned otherwise a time out message will be fundisplayed.
You should generate an SMS verification code based on the mobile number and send an SMS message to the user in a specific format.The specific format should be as follows;
prefix_flag short message verification code is XXXXXX hash_value- “prefix_flag”: Indicates the prefix flag of the SMS message, including <#>, [#], and \u200b\u200b (which is a string of invisible Unicode characters)
- “short message verification code is”: indicates the SMS message content that is changeable
- “XXXXXX”: indicates a verification code
- “hash_value”: indicates the hash value generated by the HMS Core SDK to uniquely identify the app.
The hash_value is unique for all apps, it is generated based on the app package name. To obtain this hash value you can use obtainHashCode method of HMSReadSmsManager module.
Sample Sign-In/Sign-Out Application
With the help of the above information lets create a sample app which performs a basic sign-in operation to see how to use HMS Account Kit APIs.
Step 1: Lets follow instructions on “Integrating Huawei Account Kit to a Cordova Project” of this article to prepare development environment and integrate plugin to the sample project.
Step 2: Make sure that app creation and integration of the plugin successfull.
Step 3: Create a button for sign-in operation on index.html file.
Step 4: Call HMS Account Kit signIn API to allow user signing-in on index.js file.
Step 5: After successfull sign-in operation, lets use user information and displat it on a user information page. For that lets create a new page as follows.
login.html file includes one button for sign-out and user information fields. These fields filling up with user information which came from sign-in response as seen below.
Step 6: Run cordova project
cordova run android
If you need, you can find whole sample sign-in/sign-out project on below github repository…
As it can be seen using Huawei Cordova Account Plugin is an easy way to provide users secure sign in operations. It also helps to save from time with one click sign in functionality.
