firebase google authentication opens up browser instead of in-app google login screen?

Ionic Framework
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I integrated google login through firebase in my ionic app.

firebase.auth().signInWithRedirect(provider);

The above line of code seems to open up a browser window in android phone instead of an in app google login screen.

Is this wrong approach? https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/web/google-signin

I suspect that I need to follow : https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/android/firebaseui

But does that mean I have to write code in java? What if I don’t know Java and want to do this with javascript? Is it possible?

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It would be nice to have some context as to what firebase is here. Presumably it’s some sort of injected entity, but I have no idea which one. Have you looked at baumblatt/capacitor-firebase-auth?

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As far as my experience allows, I dont think you can control the popup behavior of the authentication provider in the javascript SDK.

So you indeed need to resort to capacitor/cordova based approach, using someone else’s plugin or build your own. I pretty sure this problem has been resolved earlier. But no experience from my end. I have used Eddy van Bruggen plugin which also does a popup, I believe.

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import * as firebase from 'firebase';
Which a npm package: "firebase": "^7.22.0",

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That seems to me to be the Javascript SDK, not a plugin.