Authorizing my application to use an Existing Folder

Question

Using the Android Drive API, when trying to connect using:

mGoogleApiClient = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(this)
            .addApi(Drive.API).addScope(Drive         


        

Answer 1

Google Drive Android API only support two scopes:

drive.file: (https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file) Per-file access to files created or opened by the app

drive.appdata (https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.appdata) Allows access to the Application Data folder

You need to use the Google Drive web service (https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/) and your application must use the Google APIs Client Library for Java. (https://code.google.com/p/google-api-java-client)

The scope for full access: "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive"

GoogleAccountCredential credential = GoogleAccountCredential.usingOAuth2(this, DriveScopes.DRIVE); 
credential.setSelectedAccountName(accountName); 
Drive service = new Drive.Builder(AndroidHttp.newCompatibleTransport(), new GsonFactory(), credential).build();