🐛 [FLUTTERFIRE_UI] Problems with the profile screen and "enable more sign in methods"

[graemep-nz]

Bug report

If you click "enable more sign in methods" on the profile screen you get a dialog that asks for an email address and password, plus a confirm password edit box and a button labelled NEXT. If you enter your email address and password (twice) you get told "this operation is sensitive... log in again before retrying. There's no way out of this dialog nor is there any indication of what is going to happen if you successfully click the next button. It needs a cancel button and a description of what the dialog is for. Also there should be no need for a confirm password edit box. Since you are already logged in why does it even ask for email address and password. Why not pre-fill the email address edit box and just ask for the password, if it really is "sensitive".

Steps to reproduce

After signing in, click the "email icon" labelled "enable more sign in methods" and you will see the problem dialog. Also it's not obvious that you have to tap the "email icon" - it should really be a button. Also what is the point of this option anyway - is this really needed?

Expected behavior

Explained above.

Sample project

Code as here
https://github.com/firebase/flutterfire/tree/master/packages/flutterfire_ui

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Flutter dependencies

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Dart SDK 2.17.5
Flutter SDK 3.0.3
firebase_with_flutter 1.0.0+1

dependencies:
- cloud_firestore 3.3.0 [cloud_firestore_platform_interface cloud_firestore_web collection firebase_core firebase_core_platform_interface flutter meta]
- cupertino_icons 1.0.5
- firebase_auth 3.4.2 [firebase_auth_platform_interface firebase_auth_web firebase_core firebase_core_platform_interface flutter meta]
- firebase_core 1.19.2 [firebase_core_platform_interface firebase_core_web flutter meta]
- flutter 0.0.0 [characters collection material_color_utilities meta vector_math sky_engine]
- flutterfire_ui 0.4.2+3 [cloud_firestore collection crypto desktop_webview_auth email_validator firebase_auth firebase_core firebase_database firebase_dynamic_links flutter flutter_facebook_auth flutter_localizations flutter_svg google_sign_in sign_in_with_apple twitter_login]
- google_fonts 3.0.1 [flutter http path_provider crypto]
- provider 6.0.3 [collection flutter nested]

dev dependencies:
- flutter_lints 2.0.1 [lints]
- flutter_test 0.0.0 [flutter test_api path fake_async clock stack_trace vector_math async boolean_selector characters charcode collection matcher material_color_utilities meta source_span stream_channel string_scanner term_glyph]

transitive dependencies:
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- firebase_database 9.0.19 [firebase_core firebase_core_platform_interface firebase_database_platform_interface firebase_database_web flutter]
- firebase_database_platform_interface 0.2.1+11 [collection firebase_core flutter meta plugin_platform_interface]
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- firebase_dynamic_links 4.3.2 [firebase_core firebase_core_platform_interface firebase_dynamic_links_platform_interface flutter meta plugin_platform_interface]
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- quiver 3.1.0 [matcher]
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- xdg_directories 0.2.0+1 [meta path process]
- xml 6.1.0 [collection meta petitparser]

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[graemep-nz]

Also in the process of testing this problem I somehow ended up losing the login I had created to test this (but I never deleted it) and for some strange reason the firebase console showed me there was an anonymous login - but the small app I'm testing doesn't have any way of creating an anonymous login. With some more testing I discovered that clicking the "enable more sign in methods" destroys the account and makes it an anonymous login.

[graemep-nz]

oh, now I understand what the email icon is for. There's a bug there too. I only have one authentication method provided so the "enable more methods" link shouldn't be there at all.

[guplem]

oh, now I understand what the email icon is for. There's a bug there too. I only have one authentication method provided so the "enable more methods" link shouldn't be there at all.

You are right. If there is only 1 authentication method, the "enable more sign in methods" is useless.

[guplem]

I have found other issues related to the Profile Screen and their sign in methods. I've shared them here and here.

[amoschoomy]

This profile screen can and should be improved, hopefully there's an update on this

[lesnitsky]

Fixed in #9343