Hey:wave: How do we handle deep links on desktop?...

# supabase-kt

[Ismail]

Hey👋 How do we handle deep links on desktop? Im currently using supabaseClient.handleDeeplinks() for Android/ios

[Jan]

Saw your issue, couldn't answer yet. So on on the JVM target you have two options:
• Use OTPs instead of magic links, so users will just enter the code received in their email
• Use deeplinks. The thing is this is not as straightforward on JVM/Desktop, you normally register these deeplinks while installing the application and then you'd have to use a library like https://github.com/prat-man/unique4j to send deeplink data to the already-open application instead of opening a second instance.
Thus, there is no built-in support in the library.

[Ismail]

Np, I should’ve joined the channel a while ago 😃

Thank you! I’ll try out the OTP for desktop and get back to you

[Ismail]

So I’ve decided to go with anonymous login but convert user to permanent if they wish to do so

How do we link the anonymous user to the google/apple account when using

composeAuth.rememberSignInWithGoogle or composeAuth.rememberSignInWApple ?

[Jan]

These methods are for signing in, just looked it up there doesn't seem to be a way to convert a anonymous user with native auth

[Jan]

You'll have to use linkIdentity()

[Ismail]

Ok, thanks! So I tried using linkIdentity() With google but then I get an Access Denied message on the google page, am I missing a step? Because using native auth with google generally works (obv without trying to convert anonymous to permanent) but not with linkIdentity()

[Jan]

Does "normal" OAuth work? Did you set it up correctly?

[Ismail]

when you say "normal" do you mean signing in to my app using composeAuth.rememberSignInWithGoogle ? if so yes it works, i got my google client id, enabled google provider

[Ismail]

I can get some snippets from my private repo, if you want to see what I’m doing?

[Jan]

Normal via 'auth.signInWith(Google)' so no native auth

[Ismail]

I haven’t used that before, I can try it out and see if that works

can auth.signInWith(Google) convert anonymous user to a permanent user?

[Jan]

No, thats just to sign in, but if that doesn't work then the Google configuration is wrong

[Ismail]

Ok, I’ve got it working now 🚀 , I was doing 2 things wrong

• I added the Android clientId instead of the web clientId when enabling google provider
• i didn’t add the redirectUrl in google cloud (web qauth) that you get when enabling google provider
Thanks for the help!!

[Jan]

Just an info, the Supabase API now supports linking identities with Native Auth, I'll implement it aswell.
reference: https://github.com/supabase/supabase-swift/pull/776