Need to be able to use saved logins from Brave in other apps like how Firefox for Android does it. This is now the main reason I keep Firefox installed.
We are in the process of adding this option for Android users. You’ll be able to set “Brave” as the preferred autofill option on your Android system.
You can see the open issue for this here:
opened 02:44AM - 12 Aug 22 UTC
priority/P3
feature/password-manager
OS/Android
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## Description
On Android, Brave should be registered as an Autofill services. That way, users of Brave can use Brave to autofill passwords in other applications.
## Steps to reproduce
1. Save a password in Brave for a site which also has a mobile app.
2. Open the mobile app.
## Actual result
No password is suggested
## Expected result
Brave suggests the saved password
### Additional information
Firefox on Android offers this functionality, and it's pretty handy.
This issue is related (but orthogonal) to https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/7355. That issue is about supporting AutoFill from other AutoFill services in Brave, this one is about Brave providing it's own AutoFill service.
The Android docs for AutoFill services are here: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/service/autofill/AutofillService
Its been in the process for 2 years
2 years? Sounds like no one worked on it since then. Since both Firefox and Brave are open source, why don’t they have someone look at the souce code and document how it’s done there, if there is copyright issues, have another person that hasn’t seen Firefox’s code, write their own code to duplicate it’s function?