By Magnus Hyttsten, Developer Advocate, Google Drive Google Drive Android API in Google Play Services 4.1 , you can add the convenience of Google Drive cloud storage to your apps without breaking a sweat.1. Transparent use and syncing of local storage 2. Designed for Android and available everywhere There’s minimal impact on the weight of your apps. As the client library is a stub to Google Play Services, incorporating the API has minimal impact on the size of your .apk binaries, resulting in faster downloads, fewer updates, and smaller execution footprint.
User files are automatically synced between different devices (provided the app has the same namespace and is signed with the same key).
Any device running the Gingerbread or later releases of Android and Google Play Services will automatically have support for the Google Drive Android API.
3. User interface components // Launch user interface and allow user to select file
IntentSender i = Drive.DriveApi
.newOpenFileActivityBuilder()
.setMimeType(new String[] { “text/plain” })
.build(mGoogleApiClient);
startIntentSenderForResult(i, REQ_CODE_OPEN, null, 0, 0, 0); 4. Direct access to Drive functionality Android 4.4 KitKat .How to get started documentation or explore our API demo and other sample applications on the official Google Drive GitHub repository . VIDEO +GoogleDrive , and Stack Overflow (google-drive-sdk ).Magnus Hyttsten is a Developer Advocate on the Google Drive team. Beyond work, he enjoys trying out new technologies, thinking about product strategies, and exploring California.Posted by Scott Knaster , Editor
