Dropbox announces push cloud storage API to achieve free editing

The Dropbox API is similar to Json,oauth and OpenID, where developers can hand over the user's storage needs to Dropbox, while Dropbox also saves a copy locally for the user in order to reduce the risk of cloud storage. For example, all of the Flckr images you upload will be backed up to your local Dropbox folder.

While the application of the API is tempting, initially its most important applications are mobile devices, storage limitations for mobile devices, and limitations on devices such as the IPHone and IPad, which means that accessing local files on these devices will be difficult, not to say read or write or sync. The most fundamental problem the Dropbox API has to overcome is that the mobile device does not need to use local files, and all files are synchronized to your PC computer.

Prior to the release, Dropbox had integrated the API with a number of developers, such as Air sharing, GoodReader and Quickoffice now have direct access to your Dropbox account, editing or synchronizing the files. The API currently provides a set of client-side libraries that are written in languages such as Object-c,python,ruby,java, and you can register a Dropbox Development Account to get these libraries and documents.