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Steven T.'s avatar
Steven T.
New member | Level 2
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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Brendan D.'s avatar
Brendan D.
Explorer | Level 4
11 years ago

Is it possible to bypass the Dropbox Core API and use the new UIDocumentPickerViewController stuff in iOS 8 for exporting and importing documents from Dropbox? I use it already for downloading from Dropbox, but for uploading to Dropbox I'm still using the Core API. That might solve the problem with being able to use the Core API and the Sync API at the same time.

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