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TK K.'s avatar
TK K.
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10 years ago

Login without DB UI intervention?

I am using the iOS SDK with objC (v1). Is there a way to programmatically login to a dropbox account from my app without having the DB UI prompt for user/password pop up? We want to use our DB (the d...
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Richard P.'s avatar
Richard P.
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10 years ago

No - the intention is that you never handle the user credentials.

If you want to use a central DB account, then the best thing to do is do the authentication process during your development, and include the valid auth token in the final build of the app - then it never has to auth with Dropbox, its already been done.  You can build in an update routine so the app regularly checks for a new auth token from your server if you need to.

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