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Cannot share a preview
Hi Dropbox support team, I would like to be able to share a document between the dropbox app and and my android app. My app supports the following intent filter: <intent-filter> <action ...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffUnfortunately, the Dropbox Android app doesn't currently support content links, but I'll be sure to pass this along as a feature request.
Hi Greg,
Thanks for your quick answer.
It's true that supporting content links would solve my issue but I don't think it's the only problem.
When the document is saved in Dropbox I can read the file from the Uri passed by dropbox
(format is file:///storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.dropbox.android/files/XXX ) even if it's not a content link.
But when I try to share a document that is not saved yet, the Uri passed by the dropbox app doesn't seem to exist. I get a FileNotFoundException.
Would it be possible to pass the Uri passed by the mail client as a temporary solution?
I don't see how the "share to" option in the dropbox preview screen is supposed to work otherwise. Does it work in some cases?
- Greg-DBThanks for elaborating. I'll have the team take a look to see if we can offer a solution.
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