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phunction
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10 years ago
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I have an app that is connecting via api (iOS). When they first try to access dropbox, it pops up the sign in/add device etc., all this is fine.    However, my app somehow hangs onto that login. Ev...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    10 years ago
    That's correct, you'd need to offer this as an option in your app for the user to use before uninstalling.

    Or, you may be able to handle this programmatically by storing some flag in NSUserDefaults when you link an account, which I believe doesn't persist across re-installs. So, if you don't see the flag, but you do see a stored Dropbox access token, you know the app was uninstalled/reinstalled after linking the account, so you can throw away the access token then.
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phunction
Helpful | Level 5
10 years ago

Thanks, I am planning on updating in the near future, but would like to fix this before then.

 

The question is, how can I call that option if the user simply un-installs the app? I assume I would have to add an option somewhere to unlink the dropbox account?

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Greg-DB
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10 years ago
That's correct, you'd need to offer this as an option in your app for the user to use before uninstalling.

Or, you may be able to handle this programmatically by storing some flag in NSUserDefaults when you link an account, which I believe doesn't persist across re-installs. So, if you don't see the flag, but you do see a stored Dropbox access token, you know the app was uninstalled/reinstalled after linking the account, so you can throw away the access token then.
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    phunction
    Helpful | Level 5
    10 years ago

    Alright, thanks for the help.

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