Lock is having issues when using Popup in Android with Chrome

[mgonto]

Let's say that person also wants to publish that app as a Website that uses Popup mode from Lock. If you try that website on Chrome for Android you'd get an error. That's because when Chrome tries to open the authentication URL in the popup, Chrome will see there're more than one app registered for that URL (Facebook's authenticate URL for example) and will open the IntentChooser form. Once that happens, the popup is closed and whatever he chooses (Facebook or Chrome for example), it won't work.

You can see a video of this error.

The solution for now is to use redirect if the app is running on Android and it's not a Cordova hosted app. Otherwise, it'll use the Popup (which was intended)

Pseudo code:

if (!window.cordova && UA chrome android) { 
   lock.signin(options);

} else {
   lock.signin(options, done);
}

if (window.location.hash) {
  lock.parseHash....
  done()..
}

function done() {
  // handle user logged in
}

We should look into ways of forcing this popup NOT to open the IntentChooser and remain in the browser on Chrome on Android.

[mgonto]

It's related to mozilla/winchan#6

[brentvatne]

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