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willie v.
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9 years ago

file access without download

Hello Ive been asked by a company to develop a application for them that will do all their quotes. currently all the items they sell is on a excel book and they want to keep using the excel book to...
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

Hi Haseeb, as discussed earlier in this thread, in order to access the content of a file via the Dropbox API, you need to download it. In a client-side app like on Android, this will mean that the access token will need to be in the app, and you can't prevent the users of your app from accessing it.

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