How to get the file ID so I can perform a download of a file from Google Drive API on Android?

Question

I am working on an Android project and I am trying to make use of the Google Drive API and I\'ve got most of it working but I am having an issue in how I perform a download.

Answer 1

If you know the the name of the file and if you always want to download that specific file, then you can easily get the ID and other attributes for your desired file from: https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/files/list (towards the bottom you will find a way to run queries). In the q field enter title = 'your_file_name' and run it. You should see some result show up right below and within it should be an "id" field. That is the id you are looking for.

You can also play around with additional parameters from: https://developers.google.com/drive/search-parameters