🐛 Bug Report: React Native - createOAuth2Session throws error about sdk-for-web HOT 5 OPEN

I would like to work on this issue please

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This is where the error occurs:

Looks like href is read only in react native

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I try but don't show login form of google. Please check. Thanks

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React-native can't just open a web url. The Appwrite SDK was designed for web browsers, which make redirections, and for that reason certain parts like OAuth authentication won't work out of the box in react-native. There are a few ways around this though:

1. As far as I know, the recommended way to do OAuth authentication in mobile is by triggering the phone's external browser to do the authentication and go back to your app with the token. There are libraries that do this such as "react-native-app-auth". but bear in mind that, as of today, it will require some configuration on your app, although you can find all the steps in their github page.
2. You can roll out your own OAuth implementation by adding a WebView into your app and capturing the redirections. This is not recommended anymore though, due to potential security implications, and certain providers like Facebook have started to try to prevent developers from using this method (although at the moment can still be overridden)
3. If you choose to go with option 2. I created long ago a react-native component that implements the OAuth flow over a WebView and should work with the latest Appwrite version as of December 2022. You can find it here "react-native-appwrite-oauth".

Hope this helps

Note: this might be relevant for issue #1177797467

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I was looking for a solution to avoid closed common other backend services.
I think AppWrite is doing that well and it would be so useful if AppWrite supports oauth with reactive-native in the future.

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