--- title: Social login with Ionic | daily.dev description: A step-by-step guide walks through implementing social login (Google OAuth) in a hybrid Ionic app using Firebase and AngularFire. It covers setting up an Ionic... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/social-login-with-ionic-l05pod1ce twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Social login with Ionic | daily.dev og:description: A step-by-step guide walks through implementing social login (Google OAuth) in a hybrid Ionic app using Firebase and AngularFire. It covers setting up an Ionic... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/social-login-with-ionic-l05pod1ce og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/l05poD1ce.png og:image:alt: Social login with Ionic og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Social login with Ionic **[Firebase](https://daily.dev/sources/firebase-blog)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A step-by-step guide walks through implementing social login (Google OAuth) in a hybrid Ionic app using Firebase and AngularFire. It covers setting up an Ionic project with Cordova, adding the InAppBrowser plugin to handle OAuth popups on mobile (since native platforms lack a browser popup concept), wiring up dependency injection with AngularFire's $firebaseAuth service, and building a login controller, view, and route. The InAppBrowser plugin works automatically once installed, intercepting window.open() calls to show a webview for the login flow. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do you handle OAuth popup login in a Cordova/Ionic hybrid app where there's no browser popup? Install the cordova-plugin-inappbrowser plugin, which automatically intercepts window.open() calls used by OAuth popup flows and displays a webview inside the app for the login process, requiring no additional code beyond installation. This lets Firebase's authWithOAuthPopup() method work on mobile even though native platforms lack a true popup window. _daily.dev surfaces practical fixes like this for developers wiring up mobile OAuth flows._ ### How do you set up Firebase authentication with AngularFire in an Ionic project? Add the firebase.js and angularfire.min.js scripts to index.html, declare 'firebase' as a module dependency in app.js, then create a rootRef service using a constant FirebaseUrl injected into the Firebase constructor. An Auth factory then injects rootRef and $firebaseAuth to return an authentication service usable across controllers via Angular's dependency injection. _developers wiring up legacy AngularFire integrations can find setup walkthroughs like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [How OAuth works: GitHub and Google login explained](https://daily.dev/posts/how-oauth-works-github-and-google-login-explained-z7bhexnib) · Flavio Copes · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Kotlin / Wasm — Auth part 1: Google Sign in](https://daily.dev/posts/kotlin-wasm-auth-part-1-google-sign-in-dp1b4k1zm) · ProAndroidDev · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Web3 Authentication for Your App](https://daily.dev/posts/web3-authentication-for-your-app-eo8myrb1v) · Coins Bench · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#angular](https://daily.dev/tags/angular), [#firebase](https://daily.dev/tags/firebase), [#oauth](https://daily.dev/tags/oauth), [#ionic](https://daily.dev/tags/ionic) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/social-login-with-ionic-l05pod1ce) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Social login with Ionic","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/social-login-with-ionic-l05pod1ce","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/social-login-with-ionic-l05pod1ce"},"datePublished":"2026-08-23T12:20:52.330Z","dateModified":"2026-08-23T12:44:33.500Z","description":"A step-by-step guide walks through implementing social login (Google OAuth) in a hybrid Ionic app using Firebase and AngularFire. 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