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by wgd 5005 days ago
I really like the overall result of Persona when used for logging into a web site, but has anyone come up with a good way of integrating Persona login with mobile apps or APIs?

I suppose mobile apps would ideally use some sort of Persona login service provided by the underlying OS, and until such a thing exists I guess an app could reimplement all the user-agent logic and load the user's login page in a webview. But I have no idea how at all I would go about designing an API for a website which uses Persona for logins.
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callahad 5005 days ago
We don't have a good path for native apps, yet. There have been a few experiments using Persona in native iOS (Pancake) and Android (Soup) environments, and it apparently works great in PhoneGap apps, if you use the ChildBrowser plugin.

The bug to watch is this one: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/2034 supporting environments without popups will clear the way for good native SDKs.

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