Dropbox android sdk documentation

Question

I have been doing some research, and for the life of me, I cannot find any documentation on how to use the android dropbox SDK. I have authenticated the user, but now I cannot figure out how the get the metadata (file entries) of a folder. I have looked at the Web docs, but the arguments in java are turned around, flipped over, and then some.

In objective-c, the methods are straight forward, and I understand what is going on. Must I port the code from objective-c to java?

Answer 1

As far as I can tell as of Sep 20, 2011, Dropbox still hasn't put the Android SDK documentation. Here are some workarounds:

• This guy created his own version based on the official Dropbox SDK. https://github.com/mlamina/DropboxSDK-for-Android
• This forum post gives some tips. In particular, they suggest looking at the Python documentation. http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=25318

[ EDIT by anotheranon user] My friend stumbled upon this official documentation from Dropbox. Don't even know how he found it. Since this thread is also where I gave up I would like to share!

Answer 2

You should be to find your answer here: https://www.dropbox.com/developers . Looks like the SDK is undocumented.

Try making the calls to the API directly.

Answer 3

In the SDK (DropboxSample), this will list the files in the Public folder of the user account:

In DropboxSample.java add:

public void displayFiles(DropboxAPI.Account account) {
        if (account != null) {
            DropboxAPI.Entry dbe = api.metadata("dropbox", "/Public", 10000, null, true);
            List<Entry> contents = dbe.contents;
            if (contents != null) {
            for (Entry ent:contents) {
                Toast.makeText(this, ent.fileName(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
            }
    }
    }

In LoginAsyncTask.java add:

mDropboxSample.displayFiles(mAccount);

below mDropboxSample.displayAccountInfo(mAccount);