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 Identification Companies (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 cellphone quantity straight embedded in our authentication flows.
For builders, our focus has all the time 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
Right this moment we’re saying a couple of new options that are actually accessible throughout our libraries:
Android
- Verified Telephone Quantity on Android
- Telephone Trace on Android
Internet
- One Faucet on Clever Monitoring Prevention (ITP) Browsers
iOS and macOS
Android
Verified Telephone Quantity
As an identification supplier, we’re making it seamless for builders to complement extra person information leveraging the person’s Google Account, whereas guaranteeing clear person consent is woven into the expertise. We perceive that cellphone numbers are a vital piece of account administration, each for our customers in mobile-first markets and for our builders that require elevated identification verification or two-step verification.
On Android units, builders can now request customers to share a verified cellphone quantity related to their Google Account as a part of the sign-up move. Builders have shared with us that safeguarding their customers by SMS verification represents a big price to their enterprise. Now builders can merely request a cellphone quantity from the person, which has already been verified by Google, reducing their total SMS prices through the onboarding course of.
Verified Telephone Quantity is now accessible on GIS for Android and we plan to develop to different surfaces sooner or later.
Telephone Quantity Trace
One other manner a developer can request a person’s cellphone quantity is thru the brand new Telephone Quantity Trace API on Android units. Telephone Quantity Trace permits builders to name an API the place customers can share a cellphone quantity from the SIM playing cards of their gadget, impartial of a enroll or check in move. This API is most popular over the native Android API name because it doesn’t require any extra permissions, lowering effort and time for our builders. Telephone Quantity Trace API doesn’t require a person to be signed in to their Google account and doesn’t save any data to the Google account.
Internet
One Faucet on ITP Browsers
ITP (Clever Monitoring Prevention) browsers prohibit the usage of third get together cookies, stopping the monitoring of customers throughout the net. GIS One Faucet is now accessible 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 want One Faucet for a lot of causes:
- growing person conversion
- Business main safety
- lowered 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 customized prompts and computerized sign-in on return visits
As soon as the person chooses to proceed, a popup window can be opened. The UX within the popup window is just like the usual One Faucet person expertise.
We are going to roll out this new function by default on October 12, 2022 to all builders who’ve enabled One Faucet. Seek advice from our documentation to start supporting One Faucet on ITP browsers instantly or to opt-out of default assist.
iOS and macOS
macOS Platform Growth
Over the previous few years, the Apple ecosystem has expanded to incorporate various distinct platforms (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS). As a step towards supporting the broader Apple ecosystem, now we have launched macOS assist as a part of Google Signal-In for iOS and macOS. This supplies assist for the core GIS experiences (authentication, authorization, and token storage) for native macOS apps.
Deprecations
Upcoming Deprecations
Along with new options accessible 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 Deprecation
Good Lock for Passwords Deprecation
We’re saying 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 accessible within the GIS library. We suggest all builders now use the GIS library for brand spanking new performance. For current integrations, Good Lock for Passwords visitors can be redirected to the GIS library by default, with none adjustments wanted by builders.
Google Signal-In for Web sites Deprecation
We want to remind our builders that on March 31, 2023 we’ll absolutely retire the Google Signal-In JavaScript Platform Library for net purposes. Please examine if this impacts your net utility, and if mandatory, to plan for a migration.
We’re excited to see these new options proceed to convey 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.
