You won’t be able to use third-party document providers with any other menu that’s not Apple’s share sheet, which, like photo editing extensions, requires you to manually activate third-party providers before using them.Īpple’s goal with document providers is to extend iOS’ file management capabilities without losing the convenience and consistency of the new extensibility features in the OS. These extensions are meant to offer an alternative to Apple’s new iCloud Drive UI, and, unsurprisingly, their only extension point is the default document picker of iOS 8.
#Ios dropbox help update#
While that still holds true today, I’ve been playing around with the iOS 8 update that Dropbox launched yesterday and I thought it’d be useful to collect my thoughts on the site for future reference.Ī brief recap: document provider extensions allow you to bring up a third-party document management interface to pick and save files.
#Ios dropbox help full#
In yesterday’s coverage of iOS 8 for my daily workflow and Transmit, I mentioned that I hadn’t had much time to test document pickers and provider extensions in iOS 8 and that I couldn’t grasp the full potential of Apple’s document management changes in practice.
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