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Saket S.
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10 years ago

Android API File Upload

We are working to developing an android application for physical photo printing. I would like to leverage Dropbox to act as our file repository.  Using dropbox core api's( for android ), is it pos...
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

The Dropbox Core API can be used to upload files to shared folders just like any other folders. Just supply the path of the shared folder like you would any other. Once files are uploaded to shared folders, they'll be synced to other members normally.

Note that the Dropbox API doesn't currently offer a way to share folders though, so the user would have to do that themselves, e.g., via the Dropbox web site.

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