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What is a good practice to save username and password on device?
I have gone through many answers on StackOverflow and now i am bit confused.
I am working on an email app and i want my user to feel absolutely safe while using it.
Some people suggest that we should encrypt it and save it in SharedPreference. Some suggest we shouldn’t save it on device at all.
I just want user’s details to be stored at safest place possible.
Any help, suggestions would be highly appreciated.
You should save users credentials using the AbstractAccountAuthenticator class. Not only is this super secure, it also makes your app feel more integrated with android. Have you ever gone to the “Accounts” screen in your android setting and seen your Facebook, Twitter, and GMail accounts there? That’s because they’re using an AccountAuthenticator. Also, it allows you to associate URIs/ContentProviders with particular user accounts. To see a really comprehensive (but complicated) example of all this, checkout the SampleSyncAdapter example.