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Alex1347
4 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Authorization in UWP apps
As a UWP developer, I ran into the following problem.
With the authorization policy change, Dropbox no longer supports the OAuth2 application authorization flow in web views, nor does it support th...
Mark R.5
4 years agoHelpful | Level 5
The solution is documented here, using a custom URL scheme. I can confirm that this works:
Alex1347
4 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Ok, can you have an example of using a custom URL scheme for then listen to a redirect URL in response to get a token?
I would be very grateful.
- Mark R.54 years agoHelpful | Level 5
It would be tricky to give a complete example without a sample project (which it would be good if Dropbox could provide), but I think Greg's explanation of the process in the thread I linked to gives all the information you need to piece it together. I just followed that through carefully, following the links he provided for each stage, and it worked fine. I will link the exact message I am referring to below:
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