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Clifton L.'s avatar
Clifton L.
Helpful | Level 5
11 years ago

Dropbox Datastore API Alternatives

I'm sure you've all heard Dropbox's news that they will be deprecating the Datastore API. I'm curious to know what everyone is going to move over to. I originally chose the Datastore API for a few...
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adamdbox
Explorer | Level 4
10 years ago

I've started using Firebase too and so far find it very powerful. Certainly saves a lot of time compared to rolling your own server/sync solution. It would be nice if we had more certainty about the future of these hosted sync services but for now I think I'll stick with it. I built a very basic sync engine in Python and Core Data for my first app but ran into many problems with my users' data not syncing correctly. It's great just not having to worry about sync at all and focus on actually building the core features of the app.

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