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Dropbox app for web application and native mobile apps
Hi,
I have a Dropbox app that is being used to authenticate and authorize my web application to access resources on a user's Dropbox account. The authentication is done via OAuth 2.0 and I obtain a...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThe Dropbox API doesn't use refresh tokens, so you're probably referring to access tokens. For reference, access tokens for the Dropbox API don't expire by themselves, but they can be revoked manually.
Dropbox API access tokens can be used across multiple instances of an app. E.g., an access token obtained on web can be used on mobile, and vice versa. The Dropbox API doesn't offer a way to transport those tokens between instances for you though, so you'd have to develop a secure way of doing so on your side.
One thing to note though is that some of the Dropbox SDKs (for API v1) use OAuth 1, so you wouldn't be able to use OAuth 2 access tokens in those.
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