Fwd: confirm 9a85e83e9531356d37cfd8581573d167b99c16f8

[Brad Anderson]

On Monday, 14 April 2014 at 19:36:58 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 13:20:04 -0400, Brad Anderson 
> <eco at gnuk.net> wrote:
>
>> On Monday, 14 April 2014 at 13:57:41 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
>> wrote:
>>> I use it with copy/paste. Yes, it is slightly annoying, but 
>>> actually not that bad (I use iOS). Essentially, instead of 
>>> typing in the password into the app that I want to use, which 
>>> I may have to struggle to remember, or copy from a paper, I 
>>> just go to LastPass app, type in my master password, and then 
>>> I can copy/paste the password to the other app. I rarely use 
>>> the browser part of it.
>>>
>>> In the last year, the app has been so much improved, it's 
>>> actually not a chore to use.
>>>
>>> Integrating it with the phone's default browser may help a 
>>> bit, but typically, online accounts have their own app for 
>>> their site. The only way to integrate it that would be useful 
>>> is to integrate it with the OS itself.
>>>
>>> -Steve
>>
>>
>> On Android they recently added support for auto-fill in any 
>> Android app (it uses the accessibility framework to accomplish 
>> this). It even works on random sites in Chrome for Android.
>
> As much as I wish this could happen on iOS, I am a bit wary of 
> allowing applications to affect all password text boxes in the 
> OS.
>
> I honestly don't mind the copy-paste routine, especially since 
> they made it so you don't have to double-enter your master 
> password.
>
> -Steve

You have to specifically authorize apps to be able to do this and 
there are heavy warnings shown before you do.