# Android app account creation

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/android-app-account-creation/54049>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [December 10, 2016, 3:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/android-app-account-creation/54049 "2016-12-10T03:22:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![adam\_beers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/97f17d/32.png) [@adam\_beers](https://meta.discourse.org/u/adam_beers)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 3:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/android-app-account-creation/54049/1 "2016-12-10T03:22:33Z")

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How does the official android app do an account creation? Does it use a web interface or does it use the API or some other method? I tried finding the code in the github repo, but was not successful.

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**Author:** ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/android-app-account-creation/54049/2 "2016-12-10T20:20:21Z")

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> [@adam\_beers](#):
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> account creation

The official android app doesn’t do account creation…you add a site, click `connect`, and it loads up a Chrome Webview where you log into the site and authorize API access. I don’t have a phone (not already signed in) handy to check, but my _guess_ is that if you don’t have an account already created you can make one in the Chrome Webview - which is just a mobile browser that doesn’t have an address bar.