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Authorization in UWP apps
As a UWP developer, I ran into the following problem.
With the authorization policy change, Dropbox no longer supports the OAuth2 application authorization flow in web views, nor does it support th...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffUnfortunately Dropbox doesn't currently have an example like this for UWP posted, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.
The solution is documented here, using a custom URL scheme. I can confirm that this works:
Ok, can you have an example of using a custom URL scheme for then listen to a redirect URL in response to get a token?
I would be very grateful.It would be tricky to give a complete example without a sample project (which it would be good if Dropbox could provide), but I think Greg's explanation of the process in the thread I linked to gives all the information you need to piece it together. I just followed that through carefully, following the links he provided for each stage, and it worked fine. I will link the exact message I am referring to below:
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