I'm looking for a file sharing service to host all my app's files.
The idea is to update the file sharing account, and let the app download from there every time it loads.
I tried dropbox, but they request the user to enter their login details every time, and that's not what i'm looking for.
Thanks for the help
Amazon Web Services S3 is a pretty good for file sharing. The link is here.
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This may be a dumb questions, but I haven't found an answer after lots of searching. I need to do two things, I need to allow my app to login to google, then save a file the users google drive.
I've found some steps on how to connect to google drive, but either its outdated or I don't have the correct libraries because it fails to compile: https://www.codenameone.com/google-login.html
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
For the login part there are good instructions in this blog post
Another sample of code to login to Google in this demo
You'll need to set the scope of the OAuth2 login to the appropriate Google Drive Scope
For saving files to drive, you should use ConnectionRequest to create the HTTP requests directly to their REST API.
Check the Integrating Google Sign-In into your web app. There's even an video guide explaining the concept.
There's a quick Save to Drive which enables your web site to allow users to save files to their Drive account from an arbitrary URL via their browser. If that's not sufficient enough, you can always check the Uploading Files where you can upload file data by creating or updating a File resource.
I want to upload an image (from UIImage) to my own Google Drive public folder, from an iOS app, when a user chooses an image from his Photos Library.
Is it possible to upload a file to a Google Drive public folder without showing the user a consent screen?
If not, can it be done in Dropbox?
Thanks
Your iOS app will need an Access Token for your drive. There are a number of ways of doing this, for example by embedding a Refresh Token in your app. You will need to carefully consider the security implications of doing that. My recommendation would be to host a "proxy" kind of service on App Engine and upload to that, which will then in turn upload it to your Drive account.
I am working on integrating dropbox with iOS application. I want to implement below functionality.
User can share his existing dropbox file with app.
If user modifies any of the files, i should able to fetch the updated file and notify app server.
Also these files are not app related ones. User can share any docs in his dropbox account with app
After going through API, i found that i can use dropbox chooser UI to share files. chooser is generating temporary URL which i can share with my server to extract the file from dropbox.
But to get the modified files, i have to integrate with OAuth permission to run delta query on dropbox account. Here i am struck with two parallel functionalities chooser and OAuth which seems not related to each other. Even while asking OAuth permission also, dropbox taking to web url to grant permission instead of showing already logged in user on iOS.
How do i verify both chooser account and OAuth granted account are same? How will i show dropbox chooser(of OAuth connected) when user wants to add any file to app?
Correct me if i am wrong in understanding dropbox API. Also let me know if i have to provide more details.
Am writing an iPhone App in which I want to upload a text file from the iOS App to somewhere & I thought of using dropbox for it. I will upload the file to my dropbox ID from the App (i.e. the user won't be required to authenticate with his/her dropbox credentials). Is this possible? Dropbox API (I even tried GDrive API) asks for auth ; how do I give my dropbox credentials through code & upload the file to my dropbox account?
You must need Auth,otherwise in which account the file gets uploaded??
I don't think there is any other means to accomplish this except through OAuth.
Please refer to this framework that enables your app to access files from Dropbox without having to worry about the complexities of implementing a file browser, OAuth, or managing uploads and storage.
I'm trying hard to get my mind wrapped around how you would be able to store files in the cloud from an enterprise app without requesting the user to log in.
The background:
I'm developing an iOS app that will be distributed to certain employees in our company. As of today we already have an app that uses an FTP server to upload user created files. In this new app, I would like to skip the FTP server and instead use some sort of cloud storage (DropBox, Google Drive etc.)
The users will upload some files (around 1-2 uploads per day) to the cloud service, and people at our HQ will be able to look at these files.
I don't want to have each employee create a personal cloud drive account that would be linked with a "master" account. Rather, I want this specific application to always upload it's files to the cloud storage "master" account. Is this even possible?
Since only our employees have access to the app, I don't see the security factor as limiting. The information sent is not of use to anyone else than our company (no high-security stuff).
Is it possible to "hard-code" an OAuth token that corresponds with a certain account that the app always uses? Are there other possibilities that I'm not aware of (other than FTP or cloud storage)?
Any help will be appreciated.
Regards,
Jens Nilsson
how about use one dropbox account and hard code it in your app? then your enterprise user can upload their files respectively. surely you need do some trick to make no any file with duplicate name.
i am developing one iOs application that uses a parse cloud service to upload user generated files.
in that parse service, user dont need to create a account separately.each and every user can be able to uploads files to cloud where user can be able to visit all the files which is in the cloud which is created by some other user.
suppose if we want limit some user files accessibility or upload files privilege also we can achieve that through using the parse.
i just remember parse is not open source.