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Not display dropbox authentication screen from Mobile app
We have a mobile app that's used by multiple organizations. a feature on the mobile app requires users to upload images to their Dropbox account, all organization have their own Dropbox account. To ...
Greg-DB
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Dropbox Community ModeratorRegardless of how your client/server is set up, the end-user will need to be sent through the Dropbox OAuth app authorization flow to authorize the app to access their account. This only needs to be done once per user. Once you have the access token for that user, you supply it in the "Authorization" header as "Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE" when making Dropbox API calls. I recommend reviewing the OAuth documentation and guide for more information.
Where in your app you implement this is up to you, based on what makes sense for your app. I do recommend using one of the official SDKs, if possible, as they will do a lot of the work for you. (One note though: processing this inside a web view is not allowed; use the system browser.)
Greg, do the APIs support something like "Client credentials grant" which is basically used for machine-to-machine authentication?
- Greg-DB
No, the Dropbox API only supports the code and implicit grants.
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