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Jean-Baptiste D2's avatar
Jean-Baptiste D2
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11 years ago

[DBRestClient] uploadFile: doesn't prevent my app from being killed in background

[Re-posting it here, since I think I posted it in the wrong category earlier, sorry for that]   Hello, I'm using Dropbox SDK to upload a file after my app is awakened by iOS through a Silent No...
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Greg-DB
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11 years ago

[Thanks for reposting. The API development forum is the right one for anything API related. The "Bugs & Troubleshooting" forum is more about the Dropbox product itself. I've deleted your other post so we can consolidate here.]

Anyway, the Dropbox iOS Core SDK doesn't use NSURLSession. It's a wrapper around the HTTP endpoints that uses NSURLRequest, so you'll need to configure any background functionality as necessary for your app in your app code. (The iOS Core SDK is open source though, so alternatively you could add the source directly and modify it as desired instead.) We don't we have any sample code for this in particular however.

We'll consider this a feature request though. Also, I believe our new SwiftyDropbox library, for the Dropbox API v2, currently in preview, does use NSURLSession via AlamoFire. 

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