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NetworkOnMainThreadException - connecting to Dropbox account
I followed the tutorial on file uploading from the Dropbox website here: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/java#tutorial But I am having problems when running my code. Here is my e...
You're getting a NetworkOnMainThreadException, which means you're trying to make a network call on the main thread, which isn't allowed on Android. (The upload method makes a network call to the Dropbox API servers to send up the file content.) You should make this call on a background thread instead. This isn't specific to Dropbox, so there are several answers about how to do this on StackOverflow, e.g.:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6343166/android-os-networkonmainthreadexception
There's also an example of uploading in the background in the Android sample app included with the API v2 Java SDK:
Greg-DB
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Dropbox StaffYou're getting a NetworkOnMainThreadException, which means you're trying to make a network call on the main thread, which isn't allowed on Android. (The upload method makes a network call to the Dropbox API servers to send up the file content.) You should make this call on a background thread instead. This isn't specific to Dropbox, so there are several answers about how to do this on StackOverflow, e.g.:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6343166/android-os-networkonmainthreadexception
There's also an example of uploading in the background in the Android sample app included with the API v2 Java SDK:
Thank you, it really helped me a lot.
Although this is not specified in the repository: https://github.com/silexcorp/dropbox-sdk-java
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