The Dropbox team updated the Dropbox app today with full iPad compatibility and the option to choose which app will open a document. It’s a very welcome refresh for an application that many users (myself included) depend on. As usual, the app is free. Let’s look at the improvements.
First of all, the cosmetic changes. While in the landscape orientation, Dropbox offers the same split view that Mail and several others use. Pictures and documents look great and legible on the large screen. Across the toolbar are icons to jump to your favorites, adjust your account settings, email a public link to a file (or copy it to the clipboard), mark a file as a favorite and finally choose an app to open a file.
In portrait orientation the sidebar disappears and you’re left with a full-screen view of your document and a few icons at the top. It looks super.
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