[PhoneGap] [Android] Store user and password

[Wonderm00n]

The app I'm developing uses email and password on the first screen.

The data is then validated trough Ajax to my PHP server.

What approach do you think it's better to save the email and pass
locally for future usage, if the user wants to, off course?

- HTML5 Web Storage / Database?
- Cookies (is this even possible with phonegap?)
- Any other options?

Don't forget I just want to store 2 simple strings...

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[Wonderm00n]

I received an email answer to this post:

"Cookies work well; limited to 4k.... HTML5 storage isn't "standard"
on <2.0, PhoneGap has an SQLite implimentation, but was waaaaaaay more
fiddly than LocalStoragr last time I tried it on android1.6..."

But...

Cookies doesn't seems to be working on Phonegap apps.

I'm using this functions: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
Like this:

On successful login:
createCookie("user_email_cookie",user_email,365);
createCookie("user_password_cookie",user_password,365);

When loading the page on other session:
if (readCookie('user_email_cookie')!='' &&
readCookie('user_password_cookie')!='') {
$('#email').val(readCookie('user_email_cookie'));
$
('#password').val(readCookie('user_password_cookie'));
}

But I always get NULL from the readCookie function, so I'm guessing
cookies don't work at all with phonegap?

Anyone?

On Apr 17, 7:43 pm, Wonderm00n <wonderm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The app I'm developing uses email and password on the first screen.
>
> The data is then validated trough Ajax to my PHP server.
>
> What approach do you think it's better to save the email and pass
> locally for future usage, if the user wants to, off course?
>
> - HTML5 Web Storage / Database?
> - Cookies (is this even possible with phonegap?)
> - Any other options?
>
> Don't forget I just want to store 2 simple strings...
>
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[Wonderm00n]

BTW...

If after setting the cookie I do:

alert(readCookie("user_email_cookie"));
alert(readCookie("user_password_cookie"));

I get the values ok, but if i kill the app and open it up again, I
just get "null" from the readCookie function...

So, are cookies dying with the app?

[Pierreuno]

So what is the method you finally used ?

I'm developing an android app with phonegap and I tried to store my
login/password in a cookie and it doesn't work.

[delasare]

I've run into the same issue. I've tried Lawnchair but can't seem to
find the right adaptor to use. I was about to try cookies. Can anyone
offer insight on the best way to approach storing user/pass on
Android? Here is my thread about my problems with both DOM storage and
Lawnchair. Any help or direction will be greatly appreciated. I think
Lawnchair should work, but I can't seem to get it configured properly.

http://groups.google.com/group/phonegap/browse_thread/thread/eb8814019f60211d#

[Wonderm00n]

I didn't... still stuck on this.

Anyone there has a simple solution for this?

On Apr 29, 11:36 pm, Pierreuno <phuna...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So what is the method you finally used ?
>
> I'm developing an android app with phonegap and I tried to store my
> login/password in a cookie and it doesn't work.
>

> On Apr 18, 1:20 am,Wonderm00n<wonderm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > BTW...
>
> > If after setting the cookie I do:
>
> > alert(readCookie("user_email_cookie"));
> > alert(readCookie("user_password_cookie"));
>
> > I get the values ok, but if i kill the app and open it up again, I
> > just get "null" from the readCookie function...
>
> > So, are cookies dying with the app?
>

> > On Apr 18, 9:08 am,Wonderm00n<wonderm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I received an email answer to this post:
>
> > > "Cookies work well; limited to 4k.... HTML5 storage isn't "standard"
> > > on <2.0, PhoneGap has an SQLite implimentation, but was waaaaaaay more
> > > fiddly than LocalStoragr last time I tried it on android1.6..."
>
> > > But...
>
> > > Cookies doesn't seems to be working on Phonegap apps.
>
> > > I'm using this functions:http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
> > > Like this:
>
> > > On successful login:
> > > createCookie("user_email_cookie",user_email,365);
> > > createCookie("user_password_cookie",user_password,365);
>
> > > When loading the page on other session:
> > > if (readCookie('user_email_cookie')!='' &&
> > > readCookie('user_password_cookie')!='') {
> > >                 $('#email').val(readCookie('user_email_cookie'));
> > >                 $
> > > ('#password').val(readCookie('user_password_cookie'));
>
> > > }
>
> > > But I always get NULL from the readCookie function, so I'm guessing
> > > cookies don't work at all with phonegap?
>
> > > Anyone?
>

[Pierreuno]

Actually a cookie works fine for me.

So "document.cookie=" is the easiest solution.

[Nicholas]

Does this method work for iPhone as well? I'm looking to accomplish
the same thing-- have an application that needs to remember a username/
password and persist it across requests. We are targeting Android and
iPhone for the app-- what's the best way to store this data? I started
looking into HTML5's SqlLite database stuff, but it doesn't seem to be
implemented on Android prior to 2.0. If the cookies do work across
Android 1.5+ and iPhone, that'd be great..

[Pierreuno]

Cookies work on Android

[Nicholas]

I understand that it works under Android, according to this thread,
but I was wondering if they work on iPhones the same way.