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    <title>topic Re: Android Storage Access Framework support in Dropbox API Support &amp; Feedback</title>
    <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/244027#M13657</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;Hey , any updates here ?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:10:54 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>lironhel</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2017-09-28T14:10:54Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Android Storage Access Framework support</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/147405#M4803</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi,&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Love Dropbox! Are you going to support&amp;nbsp;Storage Access Framework?&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Best Jonas&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2019 09:38:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/147405#M4803</guid>
      <dc:creator>powder366</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-05-29T09:38:45Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Android Storage Access Framework support</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/147406#M4804</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Thanks! I can't make any promises one way or another, but I'm sending this along to the team as a feature request.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2015 02:15:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/147406#M4804</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-12-04T02:15:34Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Android Storage Access Framework support</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/147407#M4805</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Any progress on this? The new APIs in Android N let's you pick a document tree and you can then call methods like move, delete, create etc!&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;This would make it possible to browse Dropbox file structure in other apps by letting a user choose a folder in another app and that app doesn't need to know about Dropbox at all! Maybe that's why you haven't implemented it yet because you want every app to have an API key?&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Is it against the Dropbox terms of service to just create an app that hooks into storage access framework and letting any app use Dropbox without the other app knowing it?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2016 17:09:17 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/147407#M4805</guid>
      <dc:creator>David L.51</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2016-07-16T17:09:17Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Android Storage Access Framework support</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/147408#M4806</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi David, I don't have an update on this unfortunately.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Also,&amp;nbsp;we can't provide any absolute guarantee of an&amp;nbsp;app's compliance based on this hypothetical description, so you should be sure to review all the guidelines and terms before developing an app:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/tos" rel="nofollow noreferrer"&gt;https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/tos&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/devguide" rel="nofollow noreferrer"&gt;https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/devguide&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/branding" rel="nofollow noreferrer"&gt;https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/branding&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2016 21:42:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/147408#M4806</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2016-07-16T21:42:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Android Storage Access Framework support</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/147409#M4807</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;It's a shame Dropbox still doesn't support Storage Access Framework, like other major cloud services.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Any update on this?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2016 18:23:44 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/147409#M4807</guid>
      <dc:creator>Guillaume G.3</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2016-09-27T18:23:44Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Android Storage Access Framework support</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/147410#M4808</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;No update on this right now. Apologies I don't have better news!&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2016 00:29:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/147410#M4808</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2016-09-28T00:29:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Android Storage Access Framework support</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/195688#M8935</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Come on dropbox! You can do it!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://github.com/ianhanniballake/LocalStorage" target="_blank"&gt;https://github.com/ianhanniballake/LocalStorage&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2016 10:14:22 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/195688#M8935</guid>
      <dc:creator>warting</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2016-11-28T10:14:22Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Android Storage Access Framework support</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/244027#M13657</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hey , any updates here ?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:10:54 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/244027#M13657</guid>
      <dc:creator>lironhel</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-09-28T14:10:54Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Android Storage Access Framework support</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/244032#M13658</link>
      <description>Sorry, no news on this.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:33:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/244032#M13658</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-09-28T14:33:57Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Android Storage Access Framework support</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/268383#M15805</link>
      <description>Is it safe to say that you have no plans to support this in your app?</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2018 07:45:35 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/268383#M15805</guid>
      <dc:creator>David L.51</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-03-13T07:45:35Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Android Storage Access Framework support</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/268427#M15810</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/122949"&gt;@David L.51&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Unfortunately, I don't have any news one way or another regarding this request.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:59:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/268427#M15810</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-03-13T15:59:20Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Android Storage Access Framework support</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/285125#M17455</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;You do this on iOS, why not on Android? Please, please make it happen.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2018 22:35:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/285125#M17455</guid>
      <dc:creator>szilvaa</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-07-17T22:35:31Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Android Storage Access Framework support</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/285201#M17457</link>
      <description>I can't speak to why any particular request has or hasn't been implemented. I've sent this request along to the team, but I don't have an update on it. I'll follow up here if/when I do.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2018 12:35:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/285201#M17457</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-07-18T12:35:36Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Android Storage Access Framework support</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/321710#M18935</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;This is really pathetic.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2019 21:24:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/321710#M18935</guid>
      <dc:creator>Olivier4</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-01-06T21:24:40Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Android Storage Access Framework support</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/324493#M19072</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Looks like there have been no responses for quite a while.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have created an Android DocumentsProvider supporting the Storage Access Framework that supports DropBox. After having read through the three links posted above, the one question I can't get answered is whether it is considered OK to programmatically (and within the TOS) do the following:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;1. Get a token for accessing a user's public folder (this appears to be ok, no credentials being stored by the app)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;2. Utilize the token in the API to access a file (this appears to be ok)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;3. Utilize the token in the API to generate a publicly shareable link to the file&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;4. Use the link generated to then have the app stream the file directly from DropBox to the app&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Note that all of this is only possible when the user authenticates using the DropBox mechanism for authentication (i.e. outside the app), and then utilizes the resulting token.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Is that flow 1-4 considered ok for an app to perform?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I'm asking because while I have written a custom DocumentsProvider for DropBox, what I want to do is use it to allow the user to choose a file from their personal dropbox, then persist the direct shareable http link into a local DB for use in streaming the content from DropBox at a later date by the app. I want the streaming to be handled by components OTHER THAN the custom DocumentsProvider that are included in the app (i.e. Glide for images, ExoPlayer for video, etc.).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Essentially - I want to use the custom DocumentsProvider to allow the user to locate the file, then I want the other components in charge of streaming it down (which they do a great job of - no need for me to reinvent the wheel).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Is such use of the DropBox API:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;1. Create Shareable Link&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;2. Pass link to Glide and/or ExoPlayer&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Supported by the terms of service?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2019 03:43:38 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/324493#M19072</guid>
      <dc:creator>tfrysinger</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-01-22T03:43:38Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Android Storage Access Framework support</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/324615#M19078</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/692450"&gt;@tfrysinger&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;We can't provide any absolute guarantee of compliance based on&amp;nbsp;a description like this, so you should be sure to review all the guidelines and terms before developing code to use the Dropbox API:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/tos&amp;nbsp;" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/tos&amp;nbsp;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/devguide&amp;nbsp;" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/devguide&amp;nbsp;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/branding&amp;nbsp;" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/branding&amp;nbsp;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Apps are reviewed for compliance during their &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/developer-guide#production-approval" target="_self"&gt;production review&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;That said, it sounds like you're just using the official API and are not attempting to mislead users, so I wouldn't expect any issues.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:06:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-01-22T17:06:35Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Android Storage Access Framework support</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/363832#M20668</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;As far as I understood,&amp;nbsp;Dropbox doesn't support&amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN class="lia-link-navigation child-thread lia-link-disabled"&gt;Storage Access Framework but also abandoned its "&lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/chooser#android" target="_self"&gt;Chooser" for Android&lt;/A&gt; in 2014.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;So, what's the official way to use files from Dropbox while on Android? A custom picker UI + the official SDK?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2019 00:50:30 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/363832#M20668</guid>
      <dc:creator>Gato-Gato</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-09-07T00:50:30Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Android Storage Access Framework support</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/363864#M20669</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Gato-Gato -&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Dropbox doesn't supply their own DocumentsProvider implementation that integrates with the SAF, but they do have a plethora of APIs to use if you want to roll your own. That's what I did.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;My DocumentsProvider uses those APIs to implement the methods that the SAF calls. I based it off of an article Ian Lake wrote some time ago, located here:&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://medium.com/androiddevelopers/building-a-documentsprovider-f7f2fb38e86a" target="_blank"&gt;https://medium.com/androiddevelopers/building-a-documentsprovider-f7f2fb38e86a&lt;/A&gt;. There are some tricky parts to this (correctly implementing threading to deal with directories that have lots of entries, getting media metadata in a performant manner, etc.), but you can search StackOverflow for posts from me and see how I solved many of them.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2019 12:23:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/363864#M20669</guid>
      <dc:creator>tfrysinger</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-09-07T12:23:02Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Android Storage Access Framework support</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/363905#M20671</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Cool, thanks a lot! Leaving your question and answers here for other thread's readers:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/51663222/1014048" target="_self"&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/q/51663222/1014048&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/57486368/1014048" target="_self"&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/a/57486368/1014048&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/51116142/1014048" target="_self"&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/q/51116142/1014048&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2019 18:59:16 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Android-Storage-Access-Framework-support/m-p/363905#M20671</guid>
      <dc:creator>Gato-Gato</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-09-07T18:59:16Z</dc:date>
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