Accounts-google popup failing to close on Cordova+Android (resolved)

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I’m in the process of hunting down what’s going on here, but thought I’d ask in case anyone else is running into this issue. Essentially, it looks like this:

  • A Cordova app running on an Android device
  • Using the accounts-google package and popup flow
  • After the user enters her account information, she authenticates successfully, but sits looking at a blank white screen because the popup fails to close.

Details:

On web and iOS, it works correctly: the user sees the popup, logs in and is redirected to http://example.com/_oauth/google.

But on Android (and I’ve already tested on a variety of devices), the user is allowed to log in, but then the user is never returned to the app: they just sit staring at a blank page with the url http://example.com/oauth/google?state=blahblahblah.

There may be some issue here with http and https, or there may be something going on with restrictCreationByEmailDomain, which I use, and which has changed recently. Anyway, I’m looking into it, but if anybody has seen the same issue, I’d love to hear about it.

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The problem was in fact the protocol in the ROOT_URL environment variable on the server, which was http instead of https. Once I changed this to https://example.com, all was well.

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Thanks, this really helped me out on my setup. Couldn’t figure out why Google login was working on the development version but not on the staging version.