Cordova - custom login method does not get called

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Okay, I needed to define a custom login method because the server holding the accounts, while not being under my control, is a fully trusted source, so something like OAuth is a) not possible and b) not needed.

I want to stress that this whole thing works just fine in the browser.

Here’s the relevant portion of my React class:

import React from 'react';
import TextField from '@material-ui/core/TextField';
import Button from '@material-ui/core/Button';
import { Accounts } from 'meteor/accounts-base';
import Typography from '@material-ui/core/Typography';
import Tappable from 'react-tappable/lib/Tappable';

class Login extends React.Component {
    state = {
        user: '',
        password: '',
        error: ''
    }
    onUserChange = (e) => {
        this.setState({
            user: e.target.value
        })
    }
    onPasswordChange = (e) => {
        this.setState({
            password: e.target.value
        })
    }

    loginUserWithNextCloud = (user,password,callback) => {
        const loginRequest = {
            custom: true,
            user: user,
            password: password
        }
        console.log("Beginning client login, about to call method from within");
        Accounts.callLoginMethod({
            methodArguments: [loginRequest],
            userCallback: callback
        });
    }

    tryLogin = () => {
        //TODO: Set spinner while waiting for response
        this.setState({
            error: ""
        });
        this.loginUserWithNextCloud(this.state.user, this.state.password, (err,res) => {
            if(err) {
                this.setState({
                    error: "Username / Passwort falsch!"
                });
            } else {
                this.props.history.push("/");
            }
        })
    }
    render() {
        return(
            <div>
                <TextField value={this.state.user} placeholder="Username" onChange={this.onUserChange} /><br />
                <TextField value={this.state.password} type="password" onChange={this.onPasswordChange} /><br />
                {!this.state.error && <Typography>{this.state.error}</Typography>}
                <Tappable onTap={this.tryLogin}>
                    <Button onClick={this.tryLogin}>Absenden</Button>
                </Tappable>
            </div>
        )
    }
}

export default Login;

and here’s how the method is currently setup on the server:

Accounts.registerLoginHandler("custom", (loginRequest) => {
  if(!loginRequest.custom) return undefined;
  let code = 0;
  let result = '';
  try {
    console.log("Trying to log in");
    result = HTTP.call("GET", "https://foo.bar.baz/ocs/v1.php/cloud/users/" + loginRequest.user,
      {
        auth: loginRequest.user+":"+loginRequest.password,
        headers: {
          "OCS-APIRequest": true
        }
      }
    )
    code = result.statusCode;
  } catch(err) {
    //code = err.response.statusCode;
    console.log("error with call");
  }
  if(code == 200) {
    //wrangle the resulting data
    const serviceName = "nextcloud";
    const serviceData = {
      id: "foo",
      fullname: "bar",
      group: "baz"
    }
    return Accounts.updateOrCreateUserFromExternalService(
      serviceName,
      serviceData
    )
  } else {
    console.log("Wrong login attempt");
  }
})

This works great in the browser. On Cordova and Android… not so much. I’m seeing the console.log before the call to the Accounts method. But I never see the corresponding logs from the server, nevermind being logged in or anything.

Also hotpush seems to be broken completely - every time I change code for the client, it simply does not turn up, which means I have to stop the server completely and restart the build process.

Will have a look at what iOS says next.