Previously, programmers had to do all of the heavy lifting themselves, but no more.
IOS and Android apps that incorporate the new Sync API will be able to read and write to Dropbox “almost as if it were a local filesystem”, the company explains on its Developer web site. If you ask me, this exciting development marks an important step toward Dropbox becoming the de facto cross-platform file system for the 21st century. Without the Sync API, Dropbox apps can only support manual downloads and uploads and devs must do all the heavy lifting themselves… “Give your app its own private Dropbox client and leave the syncing to us”, Dropbox proclaims.īy way of plugging in the API, apps can easily gain rich features such as file sharing and seamless real-time syncing akin to the Documents in the Cloud feature found in some iCloud-enabled apps. It makes programmers’ life much easier by letting their native iOS/Android apps treat users’ cloud-based files as if they were stored locally. The hot cloud storage startup Dropbox today announced a new application programming interface (API) for in-app synch.
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