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Bob S.15's avatar
Bob S.15
Collaborator | Level 9
9 years ago

How to compile and run the DBRoulette example for iOS

I'm trying to get a better handle on how to use the objective-C Dropbox SDK.  How do you compile and run the Example project DBRoulette?  I've tried opening the DBRoulette xcode project, but it canno...
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Steve L.32's avatar
Steve L.32
Explorer | Level 4
9 years ago
I too am finding it extremely difficult in making this v2 transition.  My needs are very simple: my v1 app queries metadata, and uploads and downloads files. The old DBRoulette example was simple to understand, all I needed was a key and a secret, and authentication just worked. I never even heard of OAuths and endpoints back then!
 
Now DBRoulette comes in three flavours, so which is the “better” method?  Would you give me a 25 word executive summary?  For what it’s worth I’ve already installed carthage.  I am trying the Xcode subproject method, but have a question.
 
I have built the SDK and added it to DBRoulette, updated the plist and tried a compile but the header file can’t be found, can you suggest what I have missed?  Picture of the project, which looks really good to me, follows … many thanks!
 
Steve
 
Steve L.32's avatar
Steve L.32
Explorer | Level 4
9 years ago

FWIW the documented path to the Xcode subproject differs from what I found, if that matters:

 

Salamander:DBRoulette lusol$ dir Carthage/Checkouts/ObjectiveDropboxOfficial/Source/ObjectiveDropboxOfficial/ObjectiveDropboxOfficial.xcodeproj
ls: Carthage/Checkouts/ObjectiveDropboxOfficial/Source/ObjectiveDropboxOfficial/ObjectiveDropboxOfficial.xcodeproj: No such file or directory
Salamander:DBRoulette lusol$ dir Carthage/Checkouts/dropbox-sdk-obj-c/Source/ObjectiveDropboxOfficial/ObjectiveDropboxOfficial.xcodeproj/
total 1048
drwxr-xr-x  6 lusol  staff     204 May 13 10:26 .
drwxr-xr-x  6 lusol  staff     204 May 13 10:26 ..
drwxr-xr-x  3 lusol  staff     102 May 13 10:26 en.lproj
-rw-r--r--  1 lusol  staff  533743 May 13 10:26 project.pbxproj
drwxr-xr-x  3 lusol  staff     102 May 13 10:26 xcshareddata
drwxr-xr-x  3 lusol  staff     102 May 13 10:26 xcuserdata
  • Steve L.32's avatar
    Steve L.32
    Explorer | Level 4
    9 years ago

    Nevermind :)  I spent all morning working on the macOS version of my App.  But with DBRoulette I used the iOS version and mistakenly imported the macOS subproject. Sigh, old sux.

     

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