Integrating Google Drive API in Android Applications
Take away from this article
In this article, you’re going learn how to access data in user google drive via Google Drive API. First we’ll start by accessing the existing files in the drive then continue to upload a new file and finally how to download a file from drive.
Introduction
In this modern era all most every android app need some kind of storage where they can store the data related to users. With increases in paranoiya of security users don’t trust remote servers anymore. On the other hand rapid adoption of internet usage force companies for larger storage spaces which no ideal for every company.
Take Whatsapp as an example, all your chats will be backed-up to your google drive on certain interval basis. This allows the users to keep there private chat data to themselves and avoid companies like Whatsapp to deal with storage spaces.
I took the inspiration from Whatsapp on how they utilized the existing storage space and solved one of the major issue in the business model. It’s a WIN-WIN for both Whatsapp & its users. So I decided to integrate Google Drive in one of my next applications to manage user data.
This article is a dev note on what I learned while I was researching on how to integrate…
