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For a while now, I've been sharing Dropbox documents in PDF format via email. Once in a while people tell me they "can't open the links." I always just assumed they didn't know what they were doing, but today I happened to test one of these links on an Android phone.
In the Gmail app on Android, clicking on a Dropbox link in this format:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o8fpocz6tykra0o/20190204.pdf?dl=0
gives the error,
Cannot display PDF (20190204.pdf is of invalid format)
Anyone know how to get this to work on Android?
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@Lusil, can you please help me get to a solution with this problem too?
If anyone has received private help from this thread that has resolved their issue and wants to report back here what general steps were taken, that might be helpful.
I just support it only in my own application. By click on link I open web browser. I don't know any other solution. It should be fix by dropbox team
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I have this issue too, but its music link. Those who have iphone it works. On any samung, example; Samsung note 9, Samsung Android, Samsung Galaxy, etc.. the link is clickable but when they tap the thick arrow icon to play, nothing. Today, I did it again but used someone else samething, all three are samsung phones. Any update, of what to do, or am i doing someting wrong? Thank you in advance
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