How to determine if a Firebase user is signed in using facebook authentication
I am using firebase from google and I have some trouble with user authentication. After logging with facebook I obtain FirebaseUser in AuthStateListener, but how can I detect if this user is logged via facebook or differently?
UPDATE As @Frank van Puffelen said FirebaseAuth.getInstance().getCurrentUser().getProviderId() should return "facebook", but in my case it returns "firebase". Now I cannot figure out what's the reason of this behavior. When I got FacebookToken I do something like this:
AuthCredential credential = FacebookAuthProvider.getCredential(facebookToken.getToken());
mAuth.signInWithCredential(credential)
.addOnCompleteListener(this, new OnCompleteListener<AuthResult>() {
@Override
public void onComplete(@NonNull Task<AuthResult> task) {
// If sign in fails, display a message to the user. If sign in succeeds
// the auth state listener will be notified and logic to handle the
// signed in user can be handled in the listener.
if (!task.isSuccessful()) {
}
}
});
And afterthat before onComplete() method is called, my AuthStateListener gets user which provider id is not "facebook" as it should be. Am I doing something wrong? I followed official google documentation
In version 3.x and later a single user can be signed in with multiple providers. So there is no longer the concept of a single provider ID. In fact when you call:
FirebaseAuth.getInstance().getCurrentUser().getProviderId()
It will always return firebase
.
To detect if the user was signed in with Facebook, you will have to inspect the provider data:
for (UserInfo user: FirebaseAuth.getInstance().getCurrentUser().getProviderData()) {
if (user.getProviderId().equals("facebook.com")) {
System.out.println("User is signed in with Facebook");
}
}
In my app, I use Anonymous Firebase accounts. When I connect Firebase auth with a Facebook account or Google Account I am checking like the following:
for (UserInfo user: FirebaseAuth.getInstance().getCurrentUser().getProviderData()) {
if (user.getProviderId().equals("facebook.com")) {
//For linked facebook account
Log.d("xx_xx_provider_info", "User is signed in with Facebook");
} else if (user.getProviderId().equals("google.com")) {
//For linked Google account
Log.d("xx_xx_provider_info", "User is signed in with Google");
}
}
For me, the following solution is working. First, get the firebase user object if you have'nt already:
FirebaseAuth mAuth = FirebaseAuth.getInstance();
FirebaseUser firebaseUser = mAuth.getCurrentUser();
Now use the following on the FirebaseUser object to get the sign in provider:
firebaseUser.getIdToken(false).getResult().getSignInProvider()
Sources:
https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/android/com/google/firebase/auth/FirebaseUser
https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/android/com/google/firebase/auth/GetTokenResult.html
It will return password, google.com, facebook.com and twitter.com for email, google, facebook and twitter respectively.