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venu g.
Explorer | Level 3
9 years ago

Dropbox login fails in android webview

I am using dropbox-android-sdk-1.6.2.jar but after successful oauth login, webview is showing "Webpage not available" error page. I have observed this behaviour on android OS 4.0.3, 4.3, 5.0.1, 6.0. ...
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago
Thanks! I just tried this and I was able to reproduce the problem. (For me, it specifically gave the error ERR_UNKNOWN_URL_SCHEME.) It works properly for me in the system browser.

Note that the Java SDK doesn't officially support this WebView technique though (it normally either uses the official Dropbox app or the system browser). That being the case, I'm afraid I can't offer much help on this specific issue, as it's specific to your WebView setup. I highly recommend just using the normal provided flow.

If you want to further debug this though, there are some similar looking posts with potential solutions:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24697429/getting-neterr-unknown-url-scheme-while-calling-telephone-number-from-html-pag
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37773131/android-webview-tel-link-err-unknown-url-scheme
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4338305/android-webview-tel-links-show-web-page-not-found
venu g.'s avatar
venu g.
Explorer | Level 3
9 years ago

Hi Greg.

 

App is working fine on my device after fresh installation but it is not working on normal android devices. I don't know where is the problem. 

 

Thanks for your time.

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