GoogleCredentials Deprecated but is still used as an example for authentication

Hi Admin,

GoogleCredentials has already been deprecated but is still being used as an example in the Authentication using OAuth2. Would like to use the more updated version. Hope there will be some update. Thanks! 😃

If you already have an OAuth2 access token, you can use it to authenticate (notice that in this case, the access token will not be automatically refreshed):

Storage storage = StorageOptions.newBuilder()
    .setCredentials(new GoogleCredentials(new AccessToken(accessToken, expirationTime)))
    .build()
    .getService();

[AndroidDeveloperLB]

@adelbenhamadi Actually, replacing this:

    implementation 'com.google.api-client:google-api-client:1.30.2' exclude module: 'httpclient'
    implementation 'com.google.api-client:google-api-client-android:1.30.2' exclude module: 'httpclient'

With this:

implementation 'com.google.auth:google-auth-library-oauth2-http:0.17.1'

• has made the deprecation warnings about using GoogleCredential to go away. How come? The only one that seem deprecated now is ContactsService.setOAuth2Credentials(GoogleCredential).

I don’t see it can easily be replaced. My current code is very similar to this one:

https://github.com/simformsolutions/Google-People-API-Sample/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/simform/peoples/PeopleHelper.java

Meaning:

    public static Services setUp(final String serverAuthCode) throws IOException {
        final HttpTransport httpTransport = new NetHttpTransport();
        final JacksonFactory jsonFactory = JacksonFactory.getDefaultInstance();
        // Redirect URL for web based applications.
        // Can be empty too.
        final String redirectUrl = "urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob";
        // Exchange auth code for access token
        final GoogleTokenResponse tokenResponse = new GoogleAuthorizationCodeTokenRequest(
                httpTransport,
                jsonFactory,
                context.getString(R.string.clientID),
                context.getString(R.string.clientSecret),
                serverAuthCode,
                redirectUrl).execute();
        // Then, create a GoogleCredential object using the tokens from GoogleTokenResponse
        final GoogleCredential credential = new GoogleCredential.Builder()
                .setClientSecrets(context.getString(R.string.clientID), context.getString(R.string.clientSecret))
                .setTransport(httpTransport)
                .setJsonFactory(jsonFactory)
                .build();
        credential.setFromTokenResponse(tokenResponse);
        final Services services = new Services();
        services.peopleService = new People.Builder(httpTransport, jsonFactory, credential)
                .setApplicationName(context.getPackageName())
                .build();
        final ContactsService contactsService = new ContactsService("contacts");
        contactsService.setOAuth2Credentials(credential);
        services.contactsService = contactsService;
        // credential can then be used to access Google services
        return services;
    }

How could I change it? Even replacing GoogleCredential with GoogleCredentials produces various issues…

[AndroidDeveloperLB]

@cyrilfr Is it now suitable even for the code snippet I wrote?

Can you please share the code you’ve used? How did you find “getTokenValue” for GoogleTokenResponse instance, for example? I don’t see it…