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dougnull
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4 years ago

How can my Swift app upload data to Dropbox and have Dropbox create a file with it?

How can my app upload string data and a filename to Dropbox and have Dropbox create the file and store the data into it?   The SwiftyDropbox SDK's doc is a little overwhelming for me because I'm ...
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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

[Cross-linking for reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71426027/how-can-my-non-product-just-for-my-use-swift-app-write-data-to-a-dropbox-file ]

 

You can use the SwiftyDropbox SDK to integrate with Dropbox, even if your integration is not meant to be a released product. You can find instructions for getting started with the SDK here.

 

For example, to upload a file, you can use the the upload method. There's an example of calling that here.

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