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Ghulam A.'s avatar
Ghulam A.
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10 years ago

Is linking necessary to download files?

Is it possible to download files from my app folder (Dropbox) to my app without linking an account? If so, how would I do that?
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

The iOS Core SDK doesn't do any caching for you, and I'm not sure what functionality you're referring to in DBRoulette. The DBRoulette sample app displays images, not text, anyway, unless you're referring to a modified version of it?

Anyway, there are a few things that might cause your delegate methods to not be called:

1. Your rest client is nil or is being released (e.g., by ARC) prematurely.
2. You're making the call in a background thread that doesn't have a run loop.
3. Your delegate method that should be called back has a typo in it. Unfortunately the SDK doesn't warn you if it can't find a delegate method to call; it just completes without telling anyone.

 

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