Should this authenticate via the tumblr app if installed?

[nickoneill]

My first authentication attempt was without the app installed and everything worked fine. I figured if I had the app installed it would authenticate using that a la facebook.

I don't know of a way to detect if an app exists on the iOS device or not (i.e. when choosing between launching web or redirecting to an app) so this may not be possible.

Is the current state of authentication web-only?

[irace]

Hello, thanks for trying out the SDK.

We do not currently offer authentication through the Tumblr app for iOS, though this is definitely something I would love to enable in the future. Currently OAuth requires going to the web browser and getting kicked back into your application, which should be handled seamlessly for you using the SDK.

You can currently check if the Tumblr app is installed by doing:

if ([[UIApplication sharedApplication] canOpenURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"tumblr://"]]) {
    NSLog(@"Tumblr is installed");
}

This is made easier through a convenience method included in the SDK:

TMTumblrAppClient *client = [TMTumblrAppClient client];

if (![client isAppInstalled]) {
    NSLog(@"Tumblr is installed");
}

This will enable you to do a couple of other things with our app, but no, not authentication.

Also worth noting is that the app client interface is likely to change a bit, as I will likely remove its dependency on a third-party library.

[nickoneill]

Awesome, then consider this a request for that functionality!

Thanks for the quick response.