Example Android application (using the Dropbox SDK for Java.)

This shows the Dropbox API authorization flow and some API calls to retrieve files.

Requirements

This example is backwards compatible with Android 5.0 (Lollipop). Ensure your build environment supports at least Android SDK version 21.

Running the example

Running in Android Studio (not strictly necessary)

• Download this dropbox-sdk-java repository or clone it using git clone https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-java.
• Open the root folder dropbox-sdk-java in the terminal, or open it in Android Studio.
• Create a local.properties manually in the Android example project at examples/android/local.properties with the content DROPBOX_APP_KEY=YOUR_KEY_HERE where YOUR_KEY_HERE is your Dropbox App/Api Key.
  • TIP: You can create this local.properties file with the appropriate contents by runing this command echo "DROPBOX_APP_KEY=YOUR_KEY_HERE" > examples/android/local.properties on the terminal from the dropbox-sdk-java.
  • NOTE: This step of creating the examples/android/local.properties file is not required to build the app, but is required if you would like to test authentication.

5. Build and run the Android sample via the Android Studio UI.

Notes

This example project uses the source version of dropbox-sdk-java. If you would like to use the published version of the SDK, replace the following in the examples/android/build.gradle file.

• Replace implementation(project(":core"))
• with implementation("com.dropbox.core:dropbox-core-sdk:LATEST_VERSION_GOES_HERE")