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Ahmad R.7's avatar
Ahmad R.7
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11 years ago

How to pass the "request code" when doing authentication

This is for Android: I am moving from Sync API to Core API. Once you do authentication, onResume is called. However, there is no request code to be passed so I can check it in the onResume . How w...
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Greg-DB
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11 years ago

The auth flow works a bit differently between the two SDKs. You can find instructions for setting up the auth flow in the Core SDK here:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/start/android#authenticating

You use the authenticationSuccessful method to check if the user is coming back from the app auth flow. If not, it will return false so your app doesn't run the rest of that code again.

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