authorize() returns error 'Data intent is null' on Android

[KristineTrona]

Issue

Every time I call authorize() method I get Error: Data intent is null, whenever running on an Android emulator with 'R' operating system. Any idea what could be causing this error and how to fix it?

const config = {
  warmAndPrefetchChrome: Platform.OS === 'android',
  issuer,
  clientId,
  redirectUrl: 'testSchema://oauth/redirect',
  scopes: ['openid', 'profile', 'api', 'offline_access'],
  usePKCE: true,
};

export const authenticate = async () => {
  try {
    const result = await authorize(config);
    console.log('authorized')  // Execution never makes it to this line
    return result
  } catch (e) {
    throw new Error(e);
  }
};

In android/app/builde.gradle

    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.testApp"
        minSdkVersion rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
        targetSdkVersion rootProject.ext.targetSdkVersion
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0.0"
        resValue "string", "build_config_package", "com.testApp"
        manifestPlaceholders = [
            appAuthRedirectScheme: 'testSchema'
        ]

    }

AndroidManifest.xml

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  package="com.testApp">

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

    <application
      android:name=".MainApplication"
      android:label="@string/app_name"
      android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
      android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
      android:allowBackup="false"
      android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
      <activity
        android:name=".SplashActivity"
        android:theme="@style/SplashTheme"
        android:label="@string/app_name">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.DOWNLOAD_COMPLETE"/>
        </intent-filter>
      </activity>
      <activity
        android:name=".MainActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:screenOrientation="portrait"
        android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize"
        android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
        android:exported="true">
      </activity>
      <activity android:name="com.facebook.react.devsupport.DevSettingsActivity" />
      <provider
		    android:name="com.vinzscam.reactnativefileviewer.FileProvider"
		    android:authorities="${applicationId}.provider"
		    android:exported="false"
		    android:grantUriPermissions="true">
		    <meta-data
		    	android:name="android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS"
		    	android:resource="@xml/file_viewer_provider_paths"
		    />
	    </provider>
    </application>

</manifest>

Fails on all 3 of these, but works fine on 'Q' or 'Pie' operating systems:

Environment

• Your Identity Provider: IdentityServer 4
• Platform that you're experiencing the issue on: Android (specific to version 'R')
• Are you using Expo? No

[thilinawarnakula]

@KristineTrona did you find a fix to this

[KristineTrona]

@thilinawarnakula no, but I think it happens only on Android 11.0.0 (R), which has not been released to the public yet.

[Shpadoinkle]

@KristineTrona Hi Kristine,
Did you end up solving this issue?

[KristineTrona]

Hi, no, unfortunately I did not.

[Shpadoinkle]

Not sure if it will help others,
But our issue was a double up of the redirectUrl, the documentation mentions two places you can put it. In the build gradle or manifest.. But you can only do one or the other.
Putting it in both places is what broke it for us.

[harunsmrkovic]

I resolved this by adding the link prefix into the build.gradle file

manifestPlaceholders = [
            appAuthRedirectScheme: 'com.mobileubdiapp',
            appAuthRedirectScheme: 'ubdi'
        ]

e.g. If the redirect URL is ubdi://connect, then you need to have ubdi listed here

[kadikraman]

Thank you for posting your solution @Shpadoinkle and @harunsmrkovic !

@KristineTrona Is this still an issue for you? I can't reproduce this on my emulator. This is the Example app with the Identity Server 4 configuration running on Pixel 2 with API 30.

[aliiqbal436]

I am facing this same issue.

[adailson2]

I have the same issue and I tried all solutions in this thread, but I have not success.

[sharadkatre1995]

I am also facing the same issue did anyone gets anything.
Thanks

[AlkanV]

i am facing same issue

[yberstad]

From our production logs I see that some of our customers are getting this error, but I'm having a hard time reproducing the error. Does anyone have an "recipe" how to reproduce this error?

I have tried to use these steps to reproduce it, but no luck #130 (comment)

(Our app is using android:launchMode="singleInstance" instead of android:launchMode="singleTask", not sure if this has anything to do with this error)

[AlkanV]

Hello @yberstad ,

the problem here is that, react-native-app-auth is not getting data from redirectUri. this is caused because of wrong configuration in intents.
below you can find how i get rid of this error.

      <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
      </intent-filter>
      <intent-filter android:label="@string/app_name">
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/>
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"/>
       <data android:scheme="your.deeplink.scheme" />
      </intent-filter>
    </activity>
	<activity
        android:name="net.openid.appauth.RedirectUriReceiverActivity">
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/>
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"/>
        <data android:scheme="your.deeplink.scheme.for.oauth"  />
    </intent-filter>

basically, rn-app-auth gets data from redirectUri via deeplink. so you need to configure rn-app-auth to look correct deep linking scheme.

// in build.gradle
defaultConfig{
...
manifestPlaceholders = [
            appAuthRedirectScheme: 'your.deeplink.scheme.for.oauth'
        ]
}

[yberstad]

@AlkanV thank you so much for your very quick response, much appreciated!

This is our current config:

{
  issuer: https://identity-dev.sharpnet.no,
  clientId: "sharpnetapp",
  redirectUrl: "sharpnet://signin-oidc",
  scopes: ["openid", "appdevice", "applogin"],
  additionalParameters: {}
};

/app/build.gradle:

manifestPlaceholders = [
    appAuthRedirectScheme: 'sharpnet'
]

And here is our current intent-filter's in AndroidManifest.xml:

<activity
    android:name=".MainActivity"
    android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize|uiMode"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/SplashTheme"
    android:launchMode="singleInstance"
    android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize">
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.DOWNLOAD_COMPLETE"/>
    </intent-filter>
    <intent-filter android:autoVerify="true">
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
    </intent-filter>
</activity>

Should I change it to this?

<activity
    android:name=".MainActivity"
    android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize|uiMode"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/SplashTheme"
    android:launchMode="singleInstance"
    android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize">
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.DOWNLOAD_COMPLETE"/>
    </intent-filter>
    <intent-filter android:autoVerify="true">
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
        <data android:scheme="sharpnet" />
    </intent-filter>
</activity>
<activity android:name="net.openid.appauth.RedirectUriReceiverActivity">
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/>
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"/>
        <data android:scheme="sharpnet"  />
    </intent-filter>
</activity>

Just a clarification, we are only getting "Data intent is null" for some our Android users. It is working for the majority of our users.

[netanelh]

@yberstad did you find why it happens only to some users?