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I use the NewsRob app for offline aggregation of my Google Reader feed, but its always bothered me that it requires me to enter my Google username & password through the app itself. There are several other RSS apps that do the same. There's no way I'm going to enter information that important into an app that someone else wrote, so I created a separate Google account just for Google Reader.

I could be wrong, but shouldn't apps be able to use Google's OpenID or OAuth or have access to the currently logged in Google account on the phone to access Google Reader?

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Yes, there definitely should be more apps using OAuth protocol! There seems to be a feature request to get OAuth support for NewsRob: newsrob.uservoice.com/forums/35624-general/suggestions/… Sorry, but I don't know any frontend to greader doing it already. – Kaitsu Sep 13 '10 at 19:54
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And btw, it's OAuth, not OpenID we're talking about here. – Kaitsu Sep 13 '10 at 19:55
@Kaitsu yep, you're right ... I even knew the difference and typed the wrong thing! – Matt Casto Sep 13 '10 at 20:10

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Feedr seems to offer Google Reader integration and uses the Android Account Manager so that you don't have to give your credentials to the app itself.

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I use FeedSquares, which is a pretty nice reader and can use OAuth for normal google accounts and google apps accounts as well as the usual username/password way.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.rocketinbottle.feedsquares

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Behold, the Official Google Reader app.

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There's an app called Readerscope that uses OAuth to login to Google Reader. You have to pay for it ($2.50 and based on the looks of it from the video on their site I'd rather use the web interface, but it may be worth checking out. It has decent reviews on AppBrain if you disregard the people bitching that it's not free.

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