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willie v.'s avatar
willie v.
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9 years ago

file access without download

Hello Ive been asked by a company to develop a application for them that will do all their quotes. currently all the items they sell is on a excel book and they want to keep using the excel book to...
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Richard P.'s avatar
Richard P.
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9 years ago

you say that the i need to download first and work on it?

That is correct - Dropbox works at the file level, so you need to download the entire file if you want to work on it.

Is this possible to access database file and applying searching techniques on it and showing in specific order in android app.?

That's beyond the scope of this forum I am afraid, as you are asking how to read data from an Microsoft Access database. Try googling or asking on StackOverflow,com

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