Re:VLC for iOS Now Available (itunes link)
by rmccue on Friday July 19, 2013 @02:08AM
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Just linked it with my Dropbox account. That is the best implementation of authorisation I've seen in any mobile app, period. Compared to the Facebook method (overlay a dialog that for all I know could just be made by the app itself), it's fantastic.
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It is pretty slick! Although I'm pretty sure it happens the same way with FB ... at least for some apps (for instance: Words with Friends)
Facebook iOS auth can be done with SSO as well.
I didn't realise they had cross-app authentication (I haven't really seen anyone use it), but that's awesome if so.
SSO has been the main auth method for apps integrating Facebook for a couple of years now. I haven't seen the dialog in use in a long time. I'm surprised there's people still using that method.
It's a user-configurable setting on the device. So if you have it disabled, you will get a fallback to the old dialogue.
Streaming from Dropbox would be great. It seems your have to download a file before playing it back.
There is no API from Dropbox to do that, as far as I know.
If you have ideas: http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc-ports/ios.git;a=blob;f=AspenP...