Is it possible to use Dropbox, Google Drive, Skydrive, etc. as a server space?

Question

I\'m creating an app that connects online to a server to collect information. To save money from renting server space from a big corp, I was wondering if any of these free servi

Answer 1

You can't execute remote code on any of those services (that I'm aware of), but you could certainly save files to them. For example, you could write out text files (CSV? XML? JSON?) to those locations.

Take a look at the Dropbox SDK for details on how to integrate it to your iOS or Android project. It's pretty simple.

Here's a basic code sample for uploading a file:

NSString *localPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"Info" ofType:@"plist"];
NSString *filename = @"Info.plist";
NSString *destDir = @"/";
[[self restClient] uploadFile:filename toPath:destDir withParentRev:nil fromPath:localPath];