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Guy G.7
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11 years ago

Authentication to dropbox on tvOS

I want to authenticate to dropbox in tvOS. However, when dropbox opens the authentication dialog, there is not way for the user to fill it- the UI does not meet the tvOS requirements. So I want to op...
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Tibor H.'s avatar
Tibor H.
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

Doh, I was not aware that the Dropbox SDK source was available (didn't even check).

Now, it seems that when I download a file via dropbox on tvOS, it tries to save it in a Dropbox temp folder. Just as a heads-up, I haven't dug into the source yet but it seems that Dropbox temp folder is in the documents folder. tvOS has no documents folder and the download to the Dropbox temp folder fails.

So with the source available, I can probably fix that easily but you might want to look into it for other devs...  

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