This is not correct. It’s a bit complicated, but the tooter beta app get’s uses the login screen of the mastodon service and makes a request to the api for a client secret/api key. That then get’s stored locally and is used when next you open the app and enter the same domain.
I’ve swapped out the QTWebkit component here: GitHub - poetaster/harbour-tooter: Tooter is Mastodon client for Sailfish OS. but still need to fix the redirect to localhost. Although, it does work as it is, when the call to the api returns, it tries to call ‘localhost’ which leads to an error screen. However, you can from that point on use the app.
I’m going to do this in 2 steps. First, make sure a local service is reachable and use the old code base and second, time permitting, move to Amber. The latter step would completely take the app out of the login loop.
