Posted by Gina Biernacki, Product Supervisor
At Google, we’re dedicated to creating authentication safer and simpler for our builders, so customers can simply entry the apps and web sites they love. Google Id Providers (GIS) continues to advance and additional develop our authentication options that provide immense worth to our accomplice ecosystem, together with extremely requested options together with a brand new verified telephone quantity immediately embedded in our authentication flows.
For builders, our focus has at all times been to supply a frictionless expertise that makes it simpler for customers to onboard and return to accomplice platforms, whereas additionally serving to builders create a trusted relationship with their customers.
What’s New
Immediately we’re asserting a number of new options that at the moment are out there throughout our libraries:
Android
- Verified Cellphone Quantity on Android
- Cellphone Trace on Android
Net
- One Faucet on Clever Monitoring Prevention (ITP) Browsers
iOS and macOS
Android
Verified Cellphone Quantity
As an id supplier, we’re making it seamless for builders to complement extra consumer information leveraging the consumer’s Google Account, whereas guaranteeing clear consumer consent is woven into the expertise. We perceive that telephone numbers are a vital piece of account administration, each for our customers in mobile-first markets and for our builders that require elevated id verification or two-step verification.
On Android gadgets, builders can now request customers to share a verified telephone quantity related to their Google Account as a part of the sign-up stream. Builders have shared with us that safeguarding their customers by SMS verification represents a major value to their enterprise. Now builders can merely request a telephone quantity from the consumer, which has already been verified by Google, lowering their total SMS prices throughout the onboarding course of.
Verified Cellphone Quantity is now out there on GIS for Android and we plan to develop to different surfaces sooner or later.
Cellphone Quantity Trace
One other means a developer can request a consumer’s telephone quantity is thru the brand new Cellphone Quantity Trace API on Android gadgets. Cellphone Quantity Trace permits builders to name an API the place customers can share a telephone quantity from the SIM playing cards of their system, unbiased of a enroll or check in stream. This API is most well-liked over the native Android API name because it doesn’t require any extra permissions, decreasing effort and time for our builders. Cellphone Quantity Trace API doesn’t require a consumer to be signed in to their Google account and doesn’t save any info to the Google account.
Net
One Faucet on ITP Browsers
ITP (Clever Monitoring Prevention) browsers prohibit the usage of third social gathering cookies, stopping the monitoring of customers throughout the net. GIS One Faucet is now out there on ITP browsers, together with Safari, Firefox and Chrome on iOS. This creates a One Faucet expertise that’s constant throughout a number of platforms, for each customers and builders. Our builders desire One Faucet for a lot of causes:
- growing consumer conversion
- Business main safety
- diminished dangers related to password administration
- permitting check in and enroll with out redirecting customers to a devoted check in / up web page
- mitigate duplicate accounts with personalised prompts and computerized sign-in on return visits
As soon as the consumer chooses to proceed, a popup window can be opened. The UX within the popup window is just like the usual One Faucet consumer expertise.
We’ll roll out this new function by default on October 12, 2022 to all builders who’ve enabled One Faucet. Confer with our documentation to start supporting One Faucet on ITP browsers instantly or to opt-out of default assist.
iOS and macOS
macOS Platform Enlargement
Over the previous couple of years, the Apple ecosystem has expanded to incorporate plenty of distinct platforms (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS). As a step towards supporting the broader Apple ecosystem, we’ve launched macOS assist as a part of Google Signal-In for iOS and macOS. This offers assist for the core GIS experiences (authentication, authorization, and token storage) for native macOS apps.
Deprecations
Upcoming Deprecations
Along with new options out there within the GIS library, we additionally need to remind our builders about upcoming deprecations.
- Good Lock for Passwords on Android Deprecation
- Google Signal-In for Web sites DeprecationÂ
Good Lock for Passwords Deprecation
We’re asserting the deprecation of the Good Lock for Passwords Android SDK, which handles password saving and retrieval, ID token requests, and sign-in trace retrieval. Now you can discover all Good Lock for Passwords performance out there within the GIS library. We suggest all builders now use the GIS library for brand spanking new performance. For present integrations, Good Lock for Passwords site visitors can be redirected to the GIS library by default, with none adjustments wanted by builders.
Google Signal-In for Web sites Deprecation
We wish to remind our builders that on March 31, 2023 we’ll totally retire the Google Signal-In JavaScript Platform Library for internet purposes. Please test if this impacts your internet utility, and if vital, to plan for a migration.
We’re excited to see these new options proceed to carry measurable worth to each our builders and customers, and stay up for persevering with supporting our builders with their identity-related wants. Please go to our developer web site to get began.
