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MIT_Hacker
I love this! I can't wait to integrate this into one of my apps. Does it also have access to the native camera application?
tagx
Yeah it does. We allow you to pull from both the local gallery and camera on both platforms.
MIT_Hacker
And does it use the native accounts on the phone? DB, FB, etc? Or do you pull up a new authorization dialog?
tagx
It doesn't use the native accounts yet in the interest of development time. We still use the mobile specific auth screen for services that support it though.

We plan to support those in the next release.

joshma
It's nice to see this on iOS - ironically, the future in iOS app inter-operability might just be in the web (connected with services like Filepicker) instead of waiting for Apple to go native.
kmax12
Great play on Filepicker's part. Having used their service on the web, it's a no brainer to include their service in future mobile apps.
sgrytoyr
We’ve been testing Filepicker.io at Bugly almost from day one, and using it officially for a couple of weeks now, and it’s been very solid. It’s always a little frightening to rely on an external service for important functionality, but this is a pretty big deal for our users, so in this case we decided to take a chance and become early adopters. No regrets so far.
makeee
Nice work guys! Can't wait to use filepicker in my iphone app.
DenisM
I'm confused. How does it make sense to pay per gigabyte for my iOS app users to upload files from their iPhone to their own Dropbox via their own network connection? This makes no sense to me...
vgurgov
This is going to be big! Great work guys!