Infinite “Choose an account” loop when using Google Drive API

Question

I\'m trying to set up an Android app that can manipulate files stored on my personal Google Drive account using the guidelines at Google Drive REST API Overview.

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Answer 1

One thing I can think of is that the value of setSelectedAccountName will default in to null if no PREF_ACCOUNT_NAME was retrieved, so this may contribute to the issue.

The only difference I can see that you did was how you instantiated the mCredential. Try to check out the Authorizing requests for Android (using GoogleApiClient instead of GoogleAccountCredential.

Answer 2

You must be using the official Google Drive Api Quickstart by Google. Link. I can confirm that it doesn't work unfortunately as of now. It leads to an infinite login loop even if I have only one gmail account on my device. Maybe consider using the code at their Drive Api page as a starting point. That should work

Answer 3

I got the exact same problem, in my case the loop was due to the fact that I did not create my credentials for my app...

The details are described here: https://developers.google.com/drive/android/get-started

You must retrieve your SHA-1 keys for both the debug and production environments and add them in your credentials in the Google Developers Console as described in the guide.

Once I added these credentials, the loop stopped right away.