Notes on authentication for those trying Surveydemo.appspot

Hi all,

I've been struggling somewhat be able to use the 2.0 synchronization mechanism on my phone. It is now working for the the examples (Simple Weather Survey). Not sure 100% what prevented me from making it work but one of the following has in the end done it for me:

1 - My email account had (...).it@gmail.com in it. Perhaps the dot in the middle of the email address was confusion for some part of the authentication?

2 - In the end I created a new account on my phone (Settings, + Account). A Google account but NOT a google + account. My previously registered account on my phone is Google +.

3 - Also, I can't remember if I was asked by Android at some point with my old account, but when I tried with my new account I was prompted for an authorization for ODK Sync to synch data (by Android, as mentionned in the Survey docs). Perhaps for some reason I didn't get that prompt with my previous account. Thus it would have been Android preventing me from Authenticating properly, not Aggregate.

Also, both the Authentication/Sync/Reset server aren't 100% reliable. In case of any failure, just repeat the steps. Also if you have troubles, going to Settings/Application manager & Force Stop the application can help since they run script at startup but not when they are "close" (but not actually stopped).

Hope that helps,

Francis

If others have had trouble with the authentication / sync, please let us
know.

The code to do this was written several years ago before the big push for
Google+ accounts, so it is entirely plausible that there is something amiss
with Google+ authentication vs. Gmail authentication.

Thank you Francis

ยทยทยท On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 7:39 AM, wrote:

Hi all,

I've been struggling somewhat be able to use the 2.0 synchronization
mechanism on my phone. It is now working for the the examples (Simple
Weather Survey). Not sure 100% what prevented me from making it work but
one of the following has in the end done it for me:

1 - My email account had (...).it@gmail.com in it. Perhaps the dot in the
middle of the email address was confusion for some part of the
authentication?

2 - In the end I created a new account on my phone (Settings, + Account).
A Google account but NOT a google + account. My previously registered
account on my phone is Google +.

3 - Also, I can't remember if I was asked by Android at some point with my
old account, but when I tried with my new account I was prompted for an
authorization for ODK Sync to synch data (by Android, as mentionned in the
Survey docs). Perhaps for some reason I didn't get that prompt with my
previous account. Thus it would have been Android preventing me from
Authenticating properly, not Aggregate.

Also, both the Authentication/Sync/Reset server aren't 100% reliable. In
case of any failure, just repeat the steps. Also if you have troubles,
going to Settings/Application manager & Force Stop the application can help
since they run script at startup but not when they are "close" (but not
actually stopped).

Hope that helps,

Francis

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