Stackoverflow login - Android App

Documentation: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/authentication

Table of Contents

• 1 Create an app on stackapps
• 2 On successful app creation, you will get details
• 3 In SessionUtil file, add relevant details
• 4 Create secrets.properties in the root folder and add "key"
• 5 In AndroidManifest.xml, add host and scheme
• 6 Run the app and click on login button
• 7 Login to stackoverflow and then approve the app
• 8 You will be redirected to app upon clicking "approve" on step 7
• 9 Now on clicking update button in app, you will see the response from server in the Android Studio logcat.
• 10 Documentation

1 Create an app on stackapps

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https://stackapps.com/apps/oauth/register

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2 On successful app creation, you will get details

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3 In SessionUtil file, add relevant details

SessionUtil.kt

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4 Create secrets.properties in the root folder and add "key"

STACK_EXCHANGE_KEY="YOUR_KEY_HERE"

Remember to add "key" and not secret.

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5 In AndroidManifest.xml, add host and scheme

Notice the resemblance in host and scheme here and the redirect_uri in step 3. They should match.

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6 Run the app and click on login button

Click on the login button in our app. On clicking login button, a browser will open and there you would need to login to stackoverflow.

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7 Login to stackoverflow and then approve the app

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8 You will be redirected to app upon clicking "approve" on step 7

Notice, the login button is hidden and logout button is shown now.

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9 Now on clicking update button in app, you will see the response from server in the Android Studio logcat.

Open Android Studio logcat and notice the response on clicking "update" button.

The update button will send request to this endpoint in StackExchangeApiService.kt

@GET("/me?order=desc&sort=reputation&site=stackoverflow")
suspend fun getMyReputation(): String

The Documentation for above endpoint is here: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/me

You can modify endpoints and do whatever at this point.

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10 Documentation

Find more Documentation, API endpoints here: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/

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