Saving file from Android and iOS

What is the easiest way to implement to save a file to a third party cloud platform from either iOS and Android? It seems the dropbox example requires the app to run from a web server and not a mobile hand held. Your feedback is appreciated.

Robb

I’ve had to do that and to be sure my pea brain didn’t find it easy. There were a lot of steps. If I had to do it every day I guess it would get easier :stuck_out_tongue:

What cloud platform do you plan to use? There may be some type of API provided that will expose a way to upload files to the cloud service and they could already have all the server-side code in place and you just have to pass either a file or a stream to the service. In the past what I did was save it out to the device then uploaded the file to the server.

The challenge with an app is that it is stateless. This doesn’t happen with browser based apps. One way to handle this is using a token based approach to maintaining state. For example, Volt uses JWT (JSON Web Tokens). In order to upload files to a service, you will most likely need to successfully negotiate their auth system with your app.

If you find an easier way to do this and if you feel like sharing, that would be great!

Check out this Tech Note:

http://wiki.nsbasic.com/Using_Dropbox_to_save_files

George Henne
NS BASIC Corporation
http://www.nsbasic.com

This topic was automatically closed 10 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.