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Aurangzeb
New member | Level 2
6 years ago

How to login to dropbox account from inside UWP app?

Hi.   I've moving my Xamarin app to UWP. In my Xamarin app I use this method of authentication https://gist.github.com/thomashagstrom/b0856a383bcdcf905c7a774c8c1b0879 The trick is  webView.Navi...
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Vasilinka
Helpful | Level 5
5 years ago

Thank you so much for your answer!

 

As far as I understand, please correct me if I'm wrong, here Google says that it is discontinuing support for authentication using Web View. - " we will no longer allow OAuth requests to Google in embedded browsers known as “web-views”.

Next, they recommend "using the device browser for OAuth requests instead of an embedded web-view".

 

But how it connected with Web Authentication Broker?

As I understand that is absolutely different mechanisms. 

Web-view is an embeddable browser and "apps are able to inspect and modify content in a web-view".

Web Authentication Broker is a system API that Windows uses instead of a web-view to prevent user passwords theft by men-in-the-middle.

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