title: Android Login - Account Authenticator vs Manual Authentication
body: <p>I'm about to implement login along with user authentication in my app.</p>
  
  <p>My first idea was to do it manually, register username and password with the server, get auth token, save it and use it in subsequent requests.</p>
  
  <p>After googling around, I gathered that the correct way to do it on Android was using Account Authenticator. I've seen a few examples of it's implementation but I don't understand the advantage of doing it this way? Is it because I can have more than one account stored? Is it because of syncing issues? I'd appreciate if someone could explain this to me. It would probably make me understand the code for it better and why it's doing what it is.</p>