Google Drive SDK for files sync in iOS

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rroveri

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Oct 1, 2012, 12:39:59 PM10/1/12
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My iOS application currently uses the DropBox API to download and synchronize a big hierarchical structure of files from the server to my device. I was thinking about switching to the Google Drive SDK v2, but i am a bit confused about two aspects:

- my files in the drive should be stored in a hierarchical structure with many folders and subfolders: how easy will it be to download all these files and replicate the same hierarchy in my device? I have seen that the API doesn't work with files paths, how could i handle this? Am i missing something?
- will it work with any kind of file?

Thanks in advance

Riccardo

Greg Robbins

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Oct 1, 2012, 8:37:32 PM10/1/12
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The Drive API does maintain a hierarchical structure, but it's not the same as a file system structure. For example, multiple siblings in a folder can have the same name.

The Drive API does support arbitrary file types.

This list is for questions specific to use of the Objective-C library. General developer support information for the Drive API is available at https://developers.google.com/drive/support

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