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I'm most excited about the new APIs for autofilling. Using a password manager on the phone today is a pain. Password filling on webpages and native apps is wonk

by sqren 10y ago

I'm most excited about the new APIs for autofilling. Using a password manager on the phone today is a pain. Password filling on webpages and native apps is wonky (to say the least), and most of the time I end up manually coping passwords to clipboard, which is both cumbersome and insecure. I really hope the major password managers are quick to adopt this, and it improves the current user experience. "Autofill APIs: Android users already depend on a range of password managers to autofill login details and repetitive information, which makes setting up new apps or placing transactions easier. Now we are making this work more easily across the ecosystem by adding platform support for autofill. Users can select an autofill app, similar to the way they select a keyboard app. The autofill app stores and secures user data, such as addresses, user names, and even passwords. For apps that want to handle autofill, we're adding new APIs to implement an Autofill service."

guiambros 10y ago
> Using a password manager on the phone today is a pain. 1Password for Android offers a keyboard replacement. Change to 1P keyboard, use fingerprint to unlock, and it fills automatically user/pass. Very easy and convenient, and more secure than the alternative of copying to clipboard, etc. ps: no connection to AgileBits, other than being a long time user.
- mikeevans 10y ago
  But then I have to use their crappy keyboard, which doesn't have all the features of the Google one.
  - eropple 10y ago
    You can just switch keyboards when you need to use 1Password. Not optimal, but not a terrible experience either.
    - archon810 10y ago
      Which is undoubtedly going to be much better with an official Autofill API.
apostacy 10y ago
I really hope this works out well. Maybe then we can get it on the desktop! It really shouldn't be this hard. I personally had to do a lot of hacking to get my password manager to work consistently. UX designers are really determined to make logging in as obtuse as possible.
ludjer 10y ago
With Dashlane I have 0 issues with auto fill across apps and chrome.
on_and_off 10y ago
FWIW : Google is working with Dashlane in order to extend and generalize SmartLock into a standard lib : openYOLO (you only login once). That would be pretty awesome (no more passwords ! )

by sqren 10y ago

guiambros 10y ago

> Using a password manager on the phone today is a pain. 1Password for Android offers a keyboard replacement. Change to 1P keyboard, use fingerprint to unlock, and it fills automatically user/pass. Very easy and convenient, and more secure than the alternative of copying to clipboard, etc. ps: no connection to AgileBits, other than being a long time user.

mikeevans 10y ago
But then I have to use their crappy keyboard, which doesn't have all the features of the Google one.
- eropple 10y ago
  You can just switch keyboards when you need to use 1Password. Not optimal, but not a terrible experience either.
  - archon810 10y ago
    Which is undoubtedly going to be much better with an official Autofill API.

apostacy 10y ago

I really hope this works out well. Maybe then we can get it on the desktop! It really shouldn't be this hard. I personally had to do a lot of hacking to get my password manager to work consistently. UX designers are really determined to make logging in as obtuse as possible.

ludjer 10y ago

With Dashlane I have 0 issues with auto fill across apps and chrome.

on_and_off 10y ago

FWIW : Google is working with Dashlane in order to extend and generalize SmartLock into a standard lib : openYOLO (you only login once). That would be pretty awesome (no more passwords ! )