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Sritoma M.
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11 years ago

File upload/download and database storage in Dropbox

Hi, I am developing an app in iOS. My requirement is as follows: I want to upload images and also download images. Also I want the ability to store the database structure in dropbox. So that if ...
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Greg-DB
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11 years ago

Both the Sync API and the Core API offer the ability to upload and download files to and from Dropbox, so either should work in this case. Can you elaborate on any specific issues you're experiencing?

Regarding your "database structure", this is probably also possible, depending on what exactly you mean and what you want to do. For example, you can store structured data using the Datastore API. The Datastore SDK and the Sync SDK for iOS are actually one and the same, so you can use both files and datastores functionality in the same app with that SDK.

Alternatively, if you're using a local database like SQLite, you could backup the database as a file.

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