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TK K.
New member | Level 1
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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TK K.'s avatar
TK K.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Thanks for the prompt reply and sorry if this is known. We want the app to bring data to OUR dropbox not the users, and we don't want users using the app to login to dropbox at all.

If I understand you right how would we get hold of the valid auth token after our app is logged in to our account during development? And what would we use in the objC SDK to initialize this for our session so calls would proceed properly as if it was linked via UI process etc?

We thought maybe we could use the "generated" token and embed it in the app but apparently this does not work with the objC SDK since it uses Oath1 not OAuth2...

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