Greg-DB Dropbox Community Moderator

Some of the SDKs are open source, but the Dropbox API itself doesn't offer an account creation endpoint to connect to.

The Dropbox API doesn't currently offer a way to programmatically create accounts, but I'll be sure to pass this along as feedback.

This could be an issue with the SSL setup on either end on the connection (your server or ours) so if you're still having this issue please open an API ticket so we can look into it specifically: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/contact

There are some options around how to behave when uploading a file to a path where there is already a file, but this would be something the developer of the app would need to implement. You may want to reach out to the developer of that app requesting this.

If you're using the Sync API, you should work through the tutorial to see how it's recommended apps use the API to upload and download files, use listeners, etc.: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/sync/start/android Alternatively, you can use the Core API, which may be more straightforward if you just need to…

The Sync API doesn't currently offer any functionality for enabling/disabling Sync on WiFi only, and I don't know if or when it would, but I'll be sure to pass this along as a request.

You probably will want to close any files you don't need to keep open. For reference, you can close a DBFile using the close method, documented here: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/sync/docs/ios#DBFile.close

Thanks. To clarify though, do you mean other apps that do or don't use the Dropbox Sync/Datastore SDK? The SDK does use the iOS background task API to do some syncing in the background when necessary, and I believe this exception means it ran out of limited time the OS allows for this. I'm not sure offhand if there's…

Thanks for the report. Are you able to reproduce this?

Sure, the source for the iOS Core SDK is included in the download here: https://www.dropbox.com/developers-v1/core/sdks/ios

Hi Jeremy, no, unfortunately the iOS Core SDK doesn't offer a way to do range/partials requests like this, but I'll be sure to pass this along as a feature request. Note that it is open source though, so you could modify the source if/as desired.

I believe the official Dropbox for iOS app currently registers as a Document Picker with the following modes: UIDocumentPickerModeImport UIDocumentPickerModeExportToService If those suits your use case you can certainly use those instead.

The authorization flow that uses the Dropbox app is built into the official SDKs. It's technically possible to use both the Core and Sync SDKs, but it's not easy. (It wasn't something we designed for since we didn't intend for both to be used in the same app. The basic idea would be to import the Sync SDK normally, and…

The Sync SDK doesn't currently offer support for downloading/accessing partial pieces of files, but I'll be sure to pass this along as a request. The Core API /files (GET) endpoint itself does support Range Retrieval Requests though, so if you need this functionality you may want to consider using that directly instead:…

This is fixed now. Thanks again for the report, and let us know if you're still seeing any issues.

Thanks! We've reproduced the issue and are currently investigating.

[Cross-linking for reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27376178/thumbnaillink-contains-an-invalid-url ]

We'll be happy to help, but we'll need some additional information: * What platform/API/SDK/library, including versions, are you using? * Can you post your code? * What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

The API was designed with the intention that each user would link their own Dropbox account, in order to interact with their own files. However, it is technically possible to connect to just one account. The SDKs don't offer explicit support for it and we don't recommend doing so, for various technical and security…

What problem exactly do you encounter? Do you get an error message? I can't offer much help with third party plugins of course, but if you are getting an error from the API I may be able to offer some insight.

Shared links like this (generally) don't require you to authenticate to access the content, so you can get the content and check the length. For example, using this link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vv7us05r9z46lwt/hello_world.txt?dl=0 We can ask for the raw file content by modifying the parameters as shown here:…

Aradian, this is just the welcome thread for the API forum. Please post your question as its own question using this page: https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/communities/public/questions/new?question%5Btopic_id%5D=200209245 Please include as much detail as possible, e.g., the relevant code you have so far.

We check them both, so either is fine.