Android Question Dropbox Sync Library browse for file(s)

[DSD]

Hello,

I've tried the Dropbox Sync Library and have it working but are there any support for allowing the user to browse folders and files in Dropbox, this so the user can point out where to save/load files?

Do I need to develop this functionality or is it somehow available through a Dropbox intent?

Thanks

/Mattias

 

[Erel]

You can use ListFiles to get the files and folders. However you can only access files inside the special folder that was created for your app.

 

[DSD]

Thanks for answering.

But is it even possible to retrieve files from a users dropbox account?
The app i'm writing need to access already created files (created with a .net application) that are located somewhere on the users dropbox account.
Is this possible with B4A and the Dropbox sync library?

 

[Erel]

You can access any file that is stored in your app Dropbox folder. For example:

This is how the Sync API works.

The user can access this folder.

 

[DSD]

Thanks, I understand that the sync api works this way but are there any other working solutions for B4A that you know of that would allow this kind of functionality?

It feels as if this would be a somewhat common functionlity to be able to read an already created file in the users dropbox account...

 

[Erel]

There was a tutorial about v1 of Dropbox REST api: http://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/android-dropbox-oauth-tutorial.10767/

However they switched to a new version. It should be possible to use HttpUtils2 with their REST API.

The API is documentation here: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#oauth2-methods
OAuth 2: OAuth 2.0 / Google web services tutorial

 

[DSD]

Thank you Erel for all the help.