How to use Google Drive API in Android application?

[subashdbc]

Hi,

I have been searching for the right resources for syncing files with Google Drive by Drive API from the android application. As I can see so many links, from that many are deprecated and some are about to shut down by Google.

Can anyone please help me with this? I am new to this development. It would be great if someone who guide me in the right way to achieve this Google Drive sync from Android application.

[rbstarbuck]

The Drive Android API is deprecated and will be shut down in December. We're recommending clients access Drive via the REST API. We've posted a migration guide: https://developers.google.com/drive/android/deprecation

...as well as a sample app demonstrating the use of the REST API in an Android app: https://github.com/gsuitedevs/android-samples/tree/master/drive/deprecation

[subashdbc]

@rbstarbuck Exactly, I too found this sample, https://github.com/gsuitedevs/android-samples/tree/master/drive/deprecation but the only thing is that I don't find the jar files that are used in the classes EX:

import com.google.android.gms.auth.api.signin.GoogleSignIn
import com.google.android.gms.auth.api.signin.GoogleSignInClient;
import com.google.android.gms.auth.api.signin.GoogleSignInOptions;

FYI: I use Eclipse as the IDE. And I installed all the Google Play Services on Android SDK, but still couldn't find the jar files.

It would be great if you help us. Thanks

[rbstarbuck]

To access Google Play Services APIs you can add the google() repository in your root build.gradle, e.g.: https://github.com/gsuitedevs/android-samples/blob/master/drive/deprecation/build.gradle

Then you can specify individual libraries in the dependencies of your app's build.gradle, e.g.: https://github.com/gsuitedevs/android-samples/blob/master/drive/deprecation/app/build.gradle

[subashdbc]

@rbstarbuck thanks for the response. Is it possible to achieve this with the Cordova application? Or, we need to try some other possibility to achieve google drive integration on Cordova apps?

[erickoledadevrel]

Unfortunately we don't have any familiarity with the Cordova platform.

[erickoledadevrel]

You may want to ask your question to Stack Overflow, where there are a more diverse set of developers:

https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/support#questions_and_advice