Android Security Alert: Another app on your phone may be trying to...

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
android, java
Domain
authentication, mobile

Research direction

Start with src/main/java/com/dropbox/core/android/AuthActivity.java around line 289 and compare the behavior with issue #153. Reproduce the Security Alert in a debug build on an Android emulator, then trace the authentication flow to determine the cause. Done means the alert no longer occurs in the reported setup and the relevant behavior is covered by the project’s existing validation.

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Description

Using the SDK in a debug build in Android emulator, dropbox.AuthActivity errors out with a Security Alert "There might be more than one app trying to handle....".

I see that it is very similar to : https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-java/issues/153 and the error is https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-java/blob/5f47303107da2813f696b520ce976b73d0ba7847/src/main/java/com/dropbox/core/android/AuthActivity.java#L289

  1. My app is the only non-default app in the emulator.
  2. I have verified that there are no multiple declarations of dropbox.AuthActivity in AndroidManifest files.
  3. Have tried uninstalling and re-installing the debug build multiple times.

Any idea what's going on?

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