How Dropbox Uses C++ for Cross-Platform iOS and Android DevelopmentUpdate August 15, 2019: Five years after I wrote this, Dropbox’s Eyal Guthmann announced that Dropbox has completely backed off from this strategy of using C++ for code sharing between iOS and Android in favor of using each platform’s native languages and SDKs directly. Eyal’s article is a very honest account of the downsides of choosing a non-standard tech stack, from integrating with platform AP
