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Saket S.
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10 years ago

Android API File Upload

We are working to developing an android application for physical photo printing. I would like to leverage Dropbox to act as our file repository.  Using dropbox core api's( for android ), is it pos...
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

Thanks for the additional details. It sounds like you want to have all instances of your app connect to a single Dropbox account. The API was designed with the intention that each user would link their own Dropbox account, in order to interact with their own files. However, it is technically possible to connect to just one account. The SDKs don't offer explicit support for it and we don't recommend doing so, for various technical and security reasons.

However if you did want to go this route, instead of kicking off the authorization flow, you would manually use an existing access token for your app, using the Android Core SDK. (Just be careful not to revoke it, e.g. via https://www.dropbox.com/account/security .) 

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