Access DropBox or Google Drive API from a Web app

Question

Apologies if this is a rubbish question, but it's something I've never had to give much thought and I'm short on time. I have a Web App which is required to run offline and on iOS. This Web App has a lot of content consisting mainly of videos. One solution we are thinking of is to utilise DropBox's or Google Drive's API's to download the content and access it.

The main issue with this is whether you can access a native app (DropBox or Google Drive) from a browser or Web App. Does anyone know if this is possible?

Ideas so far are:

• Access Drop Box or Google Drive native app from a web app (not sure if this is possible and is the current question)
• Wrap up the web app to make it a hybrid native app using something like Phone Gap (this is plan B but will have its own issues)
• Convert to a Google Chrome App to get improved access to Google Drive API (not sure how this would function on iOS)
• Start from scratch and build a native iOS app (a longer term solution)

Thanks

Chris

Answer 1

We ended up making a hybrid app using PhoneGap for iOS.

Answer 2

Late, but maybe helpful: www.cloudrail.com It's a useful Javascript library to access the Dropbox and Google Drive API