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navrahami
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8 years ago

Options for Dropbox Apps

Hi, We are looking forward to start developing with Dropbox API. But I just have a couple of questions regarding the ways an App can be deployed. We have customers using Dropbox as an online platfo...
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago

Dropbox does not offer a way to develop an app to be embedded or plugged in to the official Dropbox client/environment. 

The Dropbox API only allows you to build apps that can work with Dropbox by communicating with the Dropbox servers over HTTPS. 

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