Question

From my understanding to access the gmail API using XOAUTH authentication it is required you have a token and token secret if you wish to use the 3-legged-authentication.

I can obtain the token from the account manager AccountManager.KEY_AUTHTOKEN but I am unsure how to obtain the token secret.

accountManager.getAuthToken(account,  "oauth2:https://mail.google.com/", null, MainActivity.this,
new AccountManagerCallback<Bundle>() {

    @Override
    public void run(final AccountManagerFuture<Bundle> future) {
        try {

            final String token = future.getResult().getString(
                    AccountManager.KEY_AUTHTOKEN);

        } catch (final Exception e) {
            Log.e(TAG, e.getMessage(), e);
        }
    }
}, null);

Is it possible to obtain the token secret from the account manager or would I have to launch the browser to obtain this information?

Answer 1

From the research that I have concluded this is not possible.

However a possible solution to overcome this problem would to be to use the Signpost oAuth library which enables request tokens to be returned from the browser.