Google Soon to Roll-Out One Tap and Block Store on Android for Seamless Logins

The first week of "11Weeks of Android" entitled 'People & Privacy' covers the progress of Google's new Google Identity Services (GIS) Library. The major aspect of this library is One Tap and Block Store. As of now, Google is offering three options or solutions for signing in – Google Sign-In, Smart Lock for Passwords, and Android Autofill. But Google is now moving its step to provide a seamless sign-in experience by offering One Tap cross-platform sign-in mechanism which supports both web and Android.

One Tap

Google has originally announced One Tap feature for the web back in 2017 but Google is now preparing to improve the adoption of One Tap in Android. With the One Tap feature, users can seamlessly sign in to apps and services with a single tap through their Google account.

Whenever you sign up with One Tap, Google will create a “secure, token-based, password-less account” linked with your Google account. Google will also provide users a potion to set separate password credentials.

Block Store

The next aspect on which Google has focused is Block Store – a new token-based sign-in mechanism. Block Store focused to reduce the difficulty when users sign in to new devices. With the Block Store, the app saves your authentication token in an encrypted form locally on the device when you sign in. This token will get synced to the cloud if you have enabled the cloud backup.

When you set up and restore apps on new device via device-to-device or cloud restore then Block Store will retrieve and decrypt the tokens so that you will not have to sign in to the app in the new device.

The company has been planning to start the Block Store early access program by the end of this quarter. While if you're interested then you can fill this form to get into it. One Tap will support Block Store token retrieval by the end of this year.