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Dropbox deprecates API v1 forgetting obj-c

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It looks like the best option is just to get rid of the dropbox api in any existing code and use Apple's new Document Picker instead. It's just a few lines of code, and users can still select dropbox as a provider.

Picking a file yes, but having a working syncing solution... not a few lines.

UPDATE: The Obj-C SDK link is still broken: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/objective-c

But 1 hour ago "A Dropboxer" on the developer forum mentioned: "we are working on it, eta August" https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/207430...

For me, all I need is a file picker, so the Document Picker will work for me.

For you it sounds like the best solution is just to wait and see.

I'm very surprised at dropbox doing this. Dropbox is about the only API I've been able to just integrate and not touch for the past 5 years. It's worked reliably without any issues.

How a company this size can take this approach to an API upgrade is beyond me: It is not like most Dropbox-API-using iOS apps out there are written in Swift... in fact, the large majority of users - by far - are using apps written in Obj-c.

And indeed, I don't even want to touch the syncing code. It has reliably worked for the past 4 years.

My guess is that they might eventually produce a backward compatible API.

From what I can see it is the underlying REST API that has changed. I don't see any reason why they can't keep the same iOS API, and just update their iOS library to use the new v2 REST API internally.

They are "planning to add [obj-c] to the migration guide before we retire API v1".

Which sounds a lot like obj-c will not be supported, and is not even addressed in the migration guide at this time.

This makes it hard to prepare for September 28 when users will start gettings warnings about obj-c apps if the developers have not acknowledged the deprecation they cannot prepare for.

It lists the objective C SDKs in the "community SDKs" section. However both of them appear to require a certain amount of rework. I just want an updated DBRestClient that I can just slot in. Is that too much to ask?

Your users won't get warnings if you sign in and click the "I confirm that I'm aware of the deprecation" button.

Whew, I actually started to build my app on top of the Dropbox API a couple months ago, but switched it up to Google Drive since their API seemed more powerful and up to date.

At the time, API v2 seemed to still be in flux, so I started with V1 since it seemed more "stable". Now it's deprecated and will be turned off? It seems like I can't keep up lately.

Here is a working Objective-C SDK for Dropbox API v2: https://github.com/CloudRail/cloudrail-si-ios-sdk

Thanks. Any experience with http://www.ensembles.io ?

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