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Does Dropbox support the UIDocumentPickerModeOpen mode in iOS 8?
I am trying to use the iOS 8 Document Picker to choose a file package from Dropbox, and edit it in-place. However, it seems that only the import and export modes are supported. When I use the open mode, Dropbox doesn't show up in the document picker.
Is this something you guys are working on?
It would save us tons of implementation time if Dropbox supported UIDocumentPickerModeMoveToService and UIDocumentPickerModeOpen!
Any news on this? Any plans for the upcoming release of IOS9?
Anyway, please support UIDocumentPickerModeMoveToService and UIDocumentPickerModeOpen. There is no reason why dropbox behaves differently on IOS than it does on a Mac or other Desktop platform.
This is very disappointing and makes Dropbox and inferior solution to iCloud. I have no choice but to move to iCloud.
I would like to use Textastic for development purposes on my iPad and this feature is extremely important to me. I find it sad that the most popular cloud storage platform, Dropbox, does not support this feature when Box, Google Drive, and iCloud all do. iOS does not support a native file system, but if dropbox would implement this feature, that would no longer be an issue for me. Please take care of it as soon as you can
I would really appreciate it if Dropbox provided us with a status update on this issue.
I too have been asking for this feature since I saw Apple demo it at their keynote when it was announced. It is very surprising that DropBox haw not jumped on the case as it will make the whole task of managing and working on files stored within DB a million times easier.
i realise DB don't release road maps but surely a statement on whether we are likely to see this functionality added could be achieved?
Please DropBox!!!!
Totally agree. Dropbox is nice but we are very close to moving our business account elsewhere for this very reason.
So Dropbox seems to have special integrations with Microsoft and Adobe but does not support newer Apple technologies. The lack of size classes (i.e. No slide over or split screen. Apple has given years to developers to be ready for these features) and integration with the document picker definitely gives me pause in using their services. They just shed Carousel and Mailbox, I hope that means their native apps will be getting lots of improvements, maybe?
Dropbox, Apple made document handling tough for a long time on iOS. Now that they finally give an option to work and save-in-place, I don't get why you, as a service, wouldn't be first in line to support this. It's baffling to me.
Me too, I don't get why Dropbox wasn't the first to implement this feature.
To be honest, no one except Box is doing this, or doing it correctly. OneDrive tries but it doesn't actually save the file, even though you can reopen it and see the changes applied. Maybe it's opening a cached version?
Overall, Dropbox has the best features (except for the only 1TB option – I would like a 200 or 500gb one), and since I'm getting 18 months of service thanks to my ISP, I'm signing up, but I would put this feature at the very top of my feature request list.
I agree with the comments above - I've paid for a year of dropbox pro, and if this functionality isn't added but the time it's come to renew my subscription, I will be moving my business elsewhere.
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