Does the DropBox app on iOS have a URL scheme?

Question

I would like to be able to launch the DropBox app within my app. Therefore I would like to know if the DropBox app has a URL scheme that I can use to call openURL, something

Answer 1

If you need to open a specific file in the iOS Dropbox app, you can use this trick:

1. Encode your URL.
2. Append encoded URL to the dbapi-6://1/viewLink?url= prefix.

Attention: this is not documented and may change in future releases.

The whole code should look like this:

// `yourURLString` is the URL string you want to open 

if ([[UIApplication sharedApplication] canOpenURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"dbapi-6://"]) 
{    
    NSString *encodedFileURLString =
        [yourURLString stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

    NSString *fullURLString = 
        [@"dbapi-6://1/viewLink?url=" stringByAppendingString:encodedFileURLString];

    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:fullURLString]];
}
else
{
    // Otherwise open Safari
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:yourURLString]];
}