Authentication to dropbox on tvOS

Thanks for the feedback! At this point, we're recommending developers use the flow I described earlier, especially since this is already possible with the existing API. 

It's also the same as how connecting providers is already done on the existing Apple TV product:

Is there documentation for this available? I cannot seem to find it.

On the Dropbox side, there's no special documentation since this would just utilize the normal OAuth flow, documented here:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#oa2-authorize

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/oauthguide

I don't know if Apple offers any guidance or documentation on the Apple TV side of things of course though.

So, that seems to work for now. However, I do get this warning from the linker:

ld: warning: URGENT: building for tvOS simulator, but linking in object file (.../DropboxSDK.framework/DropboxSDK) built for (unknown). Note: This will be an error in the future.

Any chance you can build a framework for tvOS?

The code for the iOS SDK is part of the downloadable zip file. I assume you can just add the code directly and compile however you're compiling the rest of your app. Is that not true?

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...  

I'm not sure what you mean... could you share the code you're using to download the file? I believe you can choose whatever local path you want?

Oh, I use this:

[self.restClient loadFile:path intoPath:local];

With the local path being in the cache folder and available.

But the error happens when DBRestClient (or what class is behind there) finished the download and tries to move it to the 'local' path ("data" in this example):

[ERROR] DBRequest#connectionDidFinishLoading: error moving temp file to desired location: “6B515164-57F8-4152-992E-486CA8FB0EFE-5029-000054C21A6EFDD9” couldn’t be moved to “data” because either the former doesn't exist, or the folder containing the latter doesn't exist.

Never mind, my mistake.

Dropbox uses the tmp directory, NSTemporaryDirectory()

I didn't. Thanks again. Works fine.

Hi everyone,

I'm also looking for a way to connect my tvOS app to Dropbox.

DropboxSDK.framework uses WebKit which is not available on tvOS.

On which way should I go ?

Thanks in advance.