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Android API get account email
I am not able to get the user account email after the authentication:
I have this code (in Kotlin) on my onResume
mDBApi!!.session.finishAuthentication()
val accessToken = mDBApi!!.session.oAuth2AccessToken
val client = DbxClientV2(DbxRequestConfig.newBuilder("dropbox/MyAppName").build(), accessToken)
val email = client.users().currentAccount.email
but the getCurrentAccount() throws me 'android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException'.
How can I solve this to get the user account email?
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- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
You're getting a NetworkOnMainThreadException, which means you're trying to make a network call on the main thread, which isn't allowed on Android. (The Dropbox API methods each make a network call to the Dropbox API servers.) You should make this call on a background thread instead. This isn't specific to Dropbox, so there are several answers about how to do this on StackOverflow, e.g.:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6343166/android-os-networkonmainthreadexception
There's also an example of doing this in the Android sample app included with the Dropbox API v2 Java SDK:
https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-java/blob/7ecc15cf0f51d6ae2ba5cdb334aac2c2f3474b87/examples/android/src/main/java/com/dropbox/core/examples/android/GetCurrentAccountTask.java#L12
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