Posted by Diego Zavala and Jason Lucibello – Product Managers
In 2023, we launched Credential Supervisor for Android. Credential Supervisor creates a unified expertise for passkeys, Register with Google, and passwords, permitting seamless sign-in and eliminating the necessity for customers to kind in usernames or passwords.
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To deliver Credential Supervisor’s advantages to extra Android customers and simplify builders’ integration efforts, APIs that had been beforehand deprecated will proceed their phased removals and shutdowns. These APIs embrace:
Builders with apps that also use these APIs ought to migrate to Credential Supervisor as quickly as doable. Credential Supervisor helps all authentication options included in these legacy APIs, in addition to streamlined journeys for customers and modernizes the expertise with passkey help and streamlined person journeys. Builders seeking to implement authorization performance for Google Accounts, equivalent to scoped entry to a service like Google Drive, ought to proceed to make use of the AuthorizationClient API.
Present standing of APIs as of September 2024, replace plans, and really helpful migration guides.
Standing: Eliminated
Subsequent Replace: Totally shut down in Q1 2025
Standing: Deprecated
Subsequent Replace: Eliminated in H1 2025
Standing: Deprecated
Subsequent Replace: Eliminated in H1 2025
Standing: Deprecated
Subsequent Replace: Eliminated in H2 2025
Standing: Deprecated
Subsequent Replace: Eliminated in H2 2025
What does every standing imply?
- Deprecated: API remains to be within the SDK and useful, however will probably be eliminated and absolutely shut down sooner or later. Builders are really helpful emigrate to Credential Supervisor right now.
- Eliminated: API remains to be useful for customers, however is now not included within the SDK. New app variations compiled with the latest SDK would fail within the construct course of in case your code nonetheless makes use of the eliminated API. In case your app nonetheless depends on any of those APIs, you must migrate to Credential Supervisor as quickly as doable.
- Totally shut down: API is now not useful, and it’ll fail when a request is distributed by an app.
Credential Supervisor gives streamlined, safer auth journeys
Credential Supervisor delivers a number of benefits to customers and builders over the deprecated APIs:
- 1. Simpler, safer sign-ins with passkeys: Passkeys are a substitute for passwords that present a better and safer authentication expertise, based mostly on business requirements. Credential Supervisor brings help for passkeys to Android apps.
- 2. Frictionless, one-tap sign-in: Customers choose their most well-liked saved credential from the choices provided, while not having to recollect or kind username or passwords.
- 3. Unified UI throughout all credentials: Credential Supervisor’s one-tap sign-in works with passkeys, Register with Google, and passwords. It deduplicates strategies for a similar account, so customers now not want to recollect which methodology they final used, or which one is the “proper” methodology.
- 4. Prolonged help for password managers: Customers profit from utilizing the credentials saved of their most well-liked password supervisor on Credential Supervisor flows, and may even allow a number of password managers on the identical time! Passwords managers not solely shield customers’ credentials, however in addition they present extra motion and protections to maintain customers secure, equivalent to upgrading passwords to passkeys, alerting customers to password reuse, and containing utilization to affiliated apps and domains.
- 5. Simplified growth: Builders can consolidate their sign-in logic right into a single, fashionable API, decreasing growth overhead and upkeep efforts. New authentication performance will probably be launched by Credential Supervisor going ahead.
Adopting Credential Supervisor is an intuitive improve for builders
For builders beforehand utilizing our deprecated APIs, the transition to Credential Supervisor is clean and intuitive. Builders like X (previously often called Twitter), Pinterest have already skilled the advantages of the improve. X shared with us that Credential Supervisor’s unified strategy made migration and upkeep easy, whereas Pinterest expressed a clean course of for each customers and engineers with Credential Supervisor.
Builders can use the next guides to make adopting Credential Supervisor even simpler:
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