Sync individual files to iOS

[Michael T.82]

New to this stuff ... developing a new iOS app in swift using the new dropbox sdk.

I don't need to see the users entire dropbox folders. Just specific to the app

Is there an example of how to do this? I think I have seen something about an app specific folder and authentication for dropbox.

Any examples for this please?

[Greg-DB]

It sounds like you want to use the "app folder" permission. You can find more information about the different permissions here:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/devguide#app-permissions

You can select the permission when registering an app:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps/create

When using the API with an app with the app folder permission, you just supply paths such as "/test.txt" and the API will automatically interpret that to mean a file named "test.txt" inside your app's app folder.

[Michael T.82]

Hmm, I need to allow the user to be able to browse their folders and then pick a file that I will download and save on their iOS device.

So the app needs full access to dropbox.

Can you point me to an example of a ios file picker for dropbox please?

[Greg-DB]

It sounds like you may want to use the Dropbox iOS Chooser then:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/dropins/chooser/ios

Alternatively, you can use UIDocumentPickerViewController, for which the Dropbox app supports the modes:

- UIDocumentPickerModeImport
- UIDocumentPickerModeExportToService