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Problem and 2 possible solutions for Cordova-PhoneGap OAuth
The problem with Cordova / PhoneGap is that is isn't really a browser nor is it a server and to get a user oauth-authenticated requires browsing to the dropbox choser url. So, a dropbox app must ...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThanks for the post Randy! I'm not too familiar with Cordova/PhoneGap, and this is a bit outside the scope of Dropbox support, so I'm afraid I can't be of much help myself, but hopefully someone else here can chime in.
One thing I can note though, is that another possible (albeit non-ideal) solution is to use the "code" flow without specifying a redirect URI, in which case the user would need to copy and paste the authorization code from the Dropbox web site into your app:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#authorization
One thing I can note though, is that another possible (albeit non-ideal) solution is to use the "code" flow without specifying a redirect URI, in which case the user would need to copy and paste the authorization code from the Dropbox web site into your app:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#authorization
Steve M.Dropbox Staff
You might want to take a look at https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-js/blob/0af3014a14771f951d533d812001efb04bf68978/src/auth_driver/cordova.coffee. That's from the old deprecated JS SDK, but it hopefully shows the pattern for using Cordova's InAppBrowser control.
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