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John G.17
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9 years ago

Need Just the Swift 3 Framework

I understand that I am being forced to rewrite my applications to use the new API v2. However, it appears that I have to use yet another SET of third party tools just to do this. (Cocoa pods, Carthag...
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Richard P.'s avatar
Richard P.
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9 years ago

The Dropbox SDK comes with its own dependencies - you hardly expect the Dropnox API to implement everything it needs to do itself, right?  For example, AlamoFire is a very good http-communication framework that performs well, so Dropbox uses it rather than either roll their owm or use the tripe that Apple supplies.

This is the way of decent software development, I suggest you learn the tools, you may indeed benefit heavily from them...

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