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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...
by catoc 10y ago
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.
- cpncrunch 10y agoMy 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.