Credential Supervisor replaces legacy APIs

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, Register with Google, and passwords, permitting seamless sign-in and eliminating the necessity for customers to kind in usernames or passwords.

To convey Credential Supervisor’s advantages to extra Android customers and simplify builders’ integration efforts, APIs that had been beforehand deprecated will proceed their phased removals and shutdowns. These APIs embody:

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 assist and streamlined consumer 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: Absolutely 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 remains to be within the SDK and useful, however might be eliminated and absolutely shut down sooner or later. Builders are really helpful emigrate to Credential Supervisor right now.
• Eliminated: API remains to be useful for customers, however is now 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 must migrate to Credential Supervisor as quickly as attainable.
• Absolutely shut down: API is now 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 neater and safer authentication expertise, primarily based on business requirements. Credential Supervisor brings assist for passkeys to Android apps.

2. Frictionless, one-tap sign-in: Customers choose their most popular saved credential from the choices provided, without having to recollect or kind username or passwords.

3. Unified UI throughout all credentials: Credential Supervisor’s one-tap sign-in works with passkeys, Register with Google, and passwords. It deduplicates strategies for a similar account, so customers now not want to recollect which technique they final used, or which one is the “proper” technique.

4. Prolonged assist for password managers: Customers profit from utilizing the credentials saved of their most popular password supervisor on Credential Supervisor flows, and might even allow a number of password managers on the similar time! Passwords managers not solely defend customers’ credentials, however additionally 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 improvement: Builders can consolidate their sign-in logic right into a single, trendy API, decreasing improvement overhead and upkeep efforts. New authentication performance might be launched by way of 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 easy and intuitive. Builders like X (previously referred to as Twitter), Pinterest have already skilled the advantages of the improve. X shared with us that Credential Supervisor’s unified strategy made migration and upkeep easy, whereas Pinterest expressed a easy 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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