Maui app to upload to dropbox

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Gcleanwood wrote:

... Can this be done without forcing them to enter the Dropbox credentials?...

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Hi Gcleanwood,

There is always some way. You can always pre-generate credential information that becomes part of your application. Such a way targets server side applications and is strongly discouraged to be used in user side applications (like the one you plan create). Cons for using pre-authorized application is that everybody that take access to your application (somehow; doesn't matter how exactly) will gain access to the target account (i.e. security issue)! Another cons of using common credentials is inability of users to control alone the access; for instance if somebody (like you) by mistake invalidate the credentials, all users become affected and the application has to be distributed with valid credentials anew (or some patch, at least). 🤔 The choice is yours, but better create application that manage user access in a regular manner and all users get access to their accounts while sharing needed content (that on another way may be managed by the same or other application). Of course, many other factors (usage specifics) may impact weight of all pros and cons and affect your decision.

Good luck.

Gcleanwood The API was designed with the intention that each user would link their own Dropbox account, in order to interact with their own files. As Здравко mentioned, while it is technically possible to always connect to just one account for all users, we do not officially support this, for various technical and security reasons.

You may be interested in using the GetTemporaryUploadLinkAsync method, as long as you don't expose the actual access/refresh tokens for your account to other users.