Posted by Diego Zavala and Jason Lucibello – Product Managers
In 2023, we launched Credential Supervisor for Android. Credential Supervisor creates a unified expertise for passkeys, Check in with Google, and passwords, permitting seamless sign-in and eliminating the necessity for customers to sort in usernames or passwords.
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To deliver Credential Supervisor’s advantages to extra Android customers and simplify builders’ integration efforts, APIs that have been beforehand deprecated will proceed their phased removals and shutdowns. These APIs embrace:
Builders with apps that also use these APIs ought to migrate to Credential Supervisor as quickly as attainable. Credential Supervisor helps all authentication options included in these legacy APIs, in addition to streamlined journeys for customers and modernizes the expertise with passkey help and streamlined person journeys. Builders seeking to implement authorization performance for Google Accounts, similar to scoped entry to a service like Google Drive, ought to proceed to make use of the AuthorizationClient API.
Present standing of APIs as of September 2024, replace plans, and really helpful migration guides.
Standing: Eliminated
Subsequent Replace: Totally shut down in Q1 2025
Standing: Deprecated
Subsequent Replace: Eliminated in H1 2025
Standing: Deprecated
Subsequent Replace: Eliminated in H1 2025
Standing: Deprecated
Subsequent Replace: Eliminated in H2 2025
Standing: Deprecated
Subsequent Replace: Eliminated in H2 2025
What does every standing imply?
- Deprecated: API continues to be within the SDK and useful, however will probably be eliminated and totally shut down sooner or later. Builders are really helpful emigrate to Credential Supervisor at the moment.
- Eliminated: API continues to be useful for customers, however is not included within the SDK. New app variations compiled with the newest SDK would fail within the construct course of in case your code nonetheless makes use of the eliminated API. In case your app nonetheless depends on any of those APIs, you need to migrate to Credential Supervisor as quickly as attainable.
- Totally shut down: API is not useful, and it’ll fail when a request is shipped by an app.
Credential Supervisor provides streamlined, safer auth journeys
Credential Supervisor delivers a number of benefits to customers and builders over the deprecated APIs:
- 1. Simpler, safer sign-ins with passkeys: Passkeys are an alternative choice to passwords that present a better and safer authentication expertise, based mostly on business requirements. Credential Supervisor brings help for passkeys to Android apps.
- 2. Frictionless, one-tap sign-in: Customers choose their most well-liked saved credential from the choices provided, while not having to recollect or sort username or passwords.
- 3. Unified UI throughout all credentials: Credential Supervisor’s one-tap sign-in works with passkeys, Check in with Google, and passwords. It deduplicates strategies for a similar account, so customers not want to recollect which methodology they final used, or which one is the “proper” methodology.
- 4. Prolonged help for password managers: Customers profit from utilizing the credentials saved of their most well-liked password supervisor on Credential Supervisor flows, and may even allow a number of password managers on the identical time! Passwords managers not solely defend customers’ credentials, however in addition they present further motion and protections to maintain customers secure, similar to upgrading passwords to passkeys, alerting customers to password reuse, and containing utilization to affiliated apps and domains.
- 5. Simplified growth: Builders can consolidate their sign-in logic right into a single, fashionable API, lowering growth overhead and upkeep efforts. New authentication performance will probably be launched via Credential Supervisor going ahead.
Adopting Credential Supervisor is an intuitive improve for builders
For builders beforehand utilizing our deprecated APIs, the transition to Credential Supervisor is clean and intuitive. Builders like X (previously generally known as Twitter), Pinterest have already skilled the advantages of the improve. X shared with us that Credential Supervisor’s unified method made migration and upkeep easy, whereas Pinterest expressed a clean course of for each customers and engineers with Credential Supervisor.
Builders can use the next guides to make adopting Credential Supervisor even simpler:
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