Setting up Google phone Account programmatically

Question

I am interested in adding and setting up a hard-coded Google Account with a given username and password programmatically on the phone without any user intervention.

I have tried using

AccountsManager.addAccountExplicitly(newAccount("xxxxxx@gmail.com","com.google",password,null) 

It works perfectly for all the accountsType except for the com.google accountsType throwing the "uid not matching authenticator id" exception.

I have already followed all the suggestions given in this particular thread for fixing the error but of no use, the error persists for com.google accounts type

SecurityException: caller uid XXXX is different than the authenticator's uid

The other alternative approach I tried was using the samplesyncadapter code, it works perfectly fine, the authentication part is done in NetworkUtilities file which I believe need to be changed to Google accounts clientlogin

Is there anyway this can be performed directly without user intervention for captcha??

Answer 1

OK after few months, I managed to solve this issue. Might be helpful to someone.

The solution is not generic but quite specific to emulator/device LCD characteristic and ugly.

I used MonkeyRunner to issue touch, press and key events at specified screen coordinates to reach Home->Apps->Settings->Accounts and Sync->Add Account->Google->Next->Sign In and so on

More details about MonkeyRunner can be found here

http://developer.android.com/tools/help/monkeyrunner_concepts.html