This shouldn’t be surprising with Windows 10 around the corner, and Dropbox increasingly working closer with Microsoft, we expect a universal app that works on PCs as well as mobile devices is in the works.We are avid users of Dropbox – no, we’re not paid to blog about the application, but it has made a big impact on the productivity of our graphic design studio. As for Windows Phone, Dropbox told VentureBeat it has a different launch plan and roadmap for the platform. Today’s release is only for Android and iOS. In short, the button lets you launch desktop applications right from the web - if you’re previewing a file in your browser that already lives in the Dropbox folder on your computer, you can just open it immediately in its native application. Mobile productivity is a big priority for the company, and though Berggren thinks it is “still early” days, the company wants to reduce the number of clicks (or taps) to get work done, while also supporting more and more platforms.Įarlier this month, Dropbox added an Open button to its desktop client. In other words, Dropbox is closing the gap on mobile. The change means that you can now finally “use all the same Dropbox features for shared content as you do with your own content,” Berggren said. Until now, opening a shared link would send you to the Dropbox sign-in page on your mobile browser. Being able to view content shared with you directly within the Dropbox mobile app is an entirely new paradigm in our apps that required us to re-engineer large parts of our codebase.” “There were also a number of new and interesting technical challenges we needed to solve. “Given that in-app shared links span not only iOS and Android, but also the mobile web and our platform, we spent a few months building and fine-tuning the feature,” Henrik Berggren, product manager at Dropbox, told VentureBeat.
This may seem like a very straightforward feature, but Dropbox does have to ensure it works properly across various devices (this update doesn’t change the Dropbox app’s requirements: Android 4.0.3+ or iOS 7+). Learn how to build, scale, and govern low-code programs in a straightforward way that creates success for all this November 9.
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