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Christian T.16
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9 years ago

Swifty dropbox download file complete?

Hi, How can I determine when the file I'm downloading is complete? Is there a callback or something? I'm using the Swifty dropbox API to download a video file (provided by the tutorial...) clie...
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

If you're referring to a delay before the callback is called, that's expected because the file has to be downloaded from the Dropbox API servers over the network.

If you're referring to a delay when calling NSData.contentsOfURL, that also seems reasonable, since the entire (possibly large) file is being loaded from disk into memory.

If you mean to play the downloaded video in a media player, you should pass the file URL to the media player instead of loading the raw data into memory and printing it.

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