I really wish mobile app developers (especially those from iOS) would look at the AccountManager on Android and actually use it. You only ever need to enter credentials once and the AccountManager will store them. Apps can ask for tokens from the AccountManager so they never get the actual password. And new apps can be installed that add themselves to the AccountManager list (eg Dropbox, LinkedIn, Skype etc do this). This is how it should work.
iOS drives me nuts. There was an old joke dialog years ago "Windows has detected that you r mouse moved. You must reboot for this change to take effect." The contemporary version seems to be "iOS has detected you want to do something. You must enter a password (yet again) for this to happen." I can't understand why people are ok with this - your password should be long and hard to type and hence virtually impossible to enter on a mobile device.
You can always tell the iOS apps that were ported to Android because they have their own UI for asking for your account information instead of using the system. They also almost universally believe you only have one of a kind of account - eg only one Google account. Who doesn't have multiple ones these days (school, work, personal etc)?
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/accounts/Acco...
iOS drives me nuts. There was an old joke dialog years ago "Windows has detected that you r mouse moved. You must reboot for this change to take effect." The contemporary version seems to be "iOS has detected you want to do something. You must enter a password (yet again) for this to happen." I can't understand why people are ok with this - your password should be long and hard to type and hence virtually impossible to enter on a mobile device.
You can always tell the iOS apps that were ported to Android because they have their own UI for asking for your account information instead of using the system. They also almost universally believe you only have one of a kind of account - eg only one Google account. Who doesn't have multiple ones these days (school, work, personal etc)?