Complete login screen with backend included for Kivy apps using Firebase for user authentication.
This package lets you essentially drop a functional login screen into your app within seconds.
pip install firebaseloginscreen
- Create account
- Email verification for new accounts
- Sign in to account
- Log out of account
- Reset password
- Automatically signs users in upon app launch if an account has already been created.
Psst. Want to just see a full example? Check out main.py
and main.kv
in the examples directory.
In the kv file where you want to use the login screen, import the FirebaseLoginScreen
widget:
#:import FirebaseLoginScreen firebaseloginscreen.firebaseloginscreen.FirebaseLoginScreen
Then add the FirebaseLoginScreen
widget to your ScreenManager
class, wherever that may be. Here's a snippet
of the code you should add to your ScreenManager
:
# ---- This should be within a ScreenManager
FirebaseLoginScreen:
id: firebase_login_screen
name: "firebase_login_screen"
debug: True
remember_user: True
require_email_verification: True
web_api_key: "your_web_api_key_from_firebase" # Found in Firebase -> Project Settings -> Web API Key
background: "background.jpg"
on_login_success:
# Defining this function lets you program what to do when the
# user has logged in (probably you'll want to change screens)!
# Get the important user info
if self.login_state == 'in': app.user_localId = self.localId
if self.login_state == 'in': app.user_idToken = self.idToken
if self.login_state == "in": print("User logged in")
if self.login_state == 'out': print("User logged out")
# ---- Other screens in your app should be down here (below the FirebaseLoginScreen)
Make sure the FirebaseLoginScreen is the first screen in your ScreenManager
.
Variable Name | Required? | Description | Default | Type |
---|---|---|---|---|
web_api_key | Yes | Your Firebase project's web api key. | "" | String |
on_login_success | Yes | This function is fired when the user successfully logs in OR out. You can specify different things to do by checking if self.login_state == 'in' or self.login_state == 'out' to call different functions when the user logs in or out. |
None | Function(s) |
remember_user | No | Will remember the last user to sign in and automatically sign them in when they open the app. | True | Boolean |
require_email_verification | No | Sends new users a verification email before they can sign in. | True | Boolean |
background | No | The path to an image that will be the background for the login screen. | "" | String |
debug | No | Will print a bunch of helpful output. | False | Boolean |
Need help figuring out the setup related to Firebase? Check out these instructions.
You should define the on_login_success
function to execute whatever code you
want once a user has logged in. Probably you'll want to 1) Retrieve some data
from Firebase and 2) switch to a different screen in your ScreenManager
.
If a user has already signed in, it will store their login data and
automatically sign them in the next time around. In this case, the login screens
will not be shown, and your app will immediately do whatever you have coded it
to do in the on_login_success
function of the FirebaseLoginScreen
.
Typically, when making requests to your database to get data for your user, you
identify the user by their localId
. You can use the idToken
to authenticate
a user's request to the database if you have set up Firebase Rules. Both
of these variables are automatically retrieved for you by FirebaseLoginScreen
.
Need to allow your users to sign out? To do so, reference your FirebaseLoginScreen
widget (using an id) and call the .log_out()
function. Then have your ScreenManager switch to the FirebaseLoginScreen to allow your user to sign in again.
If your app takes a long time to start up, you may need to set the web_api_key
from python instead of in the kv language. You need to set it in the on_start
method of your App
class. Haven't fully characterized this race condition yet.
- Boolean SMS Verification (for phone sign ins)
- Sign in method choice
- email, phone