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Steven T.'s avatar
Steven T.
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11 years ago

Is it possible to load a small part of a file?

I'm using the Sync API on iOS. The app deals with a lot of large data files which have information in their header. I'd like to display this information (perhaps less than 1kb of data) to the user wi...
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Greg-DB
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11 years ago

The authorization flow that uses the Dropbox app is built into the official SDKs. It's technically possible to use both the Core and Sync SDKs, but it's not easy. (It wasn't something we designed for since we didn't intend for both to be used in the same app. The basic idea would be to import the Sync SDK normally, and then import the Core SDK source. You'd then need to remove some OS X files and rename duplicate classes.)

In this case, I would like to recommend just using the Sync SDK, and manually making the Core API call using the access token, but unfortunately the Sync SDK doesn't currently expose the access token. (We do have that open as a feature request though.) Apologies I don't have a good solution here.

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