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Store Multiple Access Tokens
Hi. I am building an android app which uses dropbox api to connect to dropbox through auth flow and then upload files on dropbox, I want to store my access token for each account into the database so...
That returns the user ID from the authorization flow. The user ID does identify the particular Dropbox account and is stable for the account, so you can technically use that. Preferably though, you should use Account.accountId as returned by getCurrentAccount. That also uniquely identifies the Dropbox account and is stable. The account ID is recommended over the user ID.
Greg-DB
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Dropbox StaffThat returns the user ID from the authorization flow. The user ID does identify the particular Dropbox account and is stable for the account, so you can technically use that. Preferably though, you should use Account.accountId as returned by getCurrentAccount. That also uniquely identifies the Dropbox account and is stable. The account ID is recommended over the user ID.
Thanks Greg! Looking forward to achieve this target :)
One thing more that where to call this method to get accountId?
- Greg-DB
To retrieve the account ID, you should call the getCurrentAccount method. There's an example of doing so here. You can make that call wherever/whenever you need in your app, e.g., when you need to get the account ID when first storing the access token, etc.
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