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Introducing the Google Drive Android API

January 16, 2014

By Magnus Hyttsten, Developer Advocate, Google DriveGoogle Drive Android APIGoogle Play Services 4.11. Transparent use and syncing of local storage

2. Designed for Android and available everywhere

There’s minimal impact on the weight of your apps. As the client library is a stub to Google Play Services, incorporating the API has minimal impact on the size of your .apk binaries, resulting in faster downloads, fewer updates, and smaller execution footprint.

User files are automatically synced between different devices (provided the app has the same namespace and is signed with the same key).

Any device running the Gingerbread or later releases of Android and Google Play Services will automatically have support for the Google Drive Android API.

3. User interface components

// Launch user interface and allow user to select file IntentSender i = Drive.DriveApi .newOpenFileActivityBuilder() .setMimeType(new String[] { “text/plain” }) .build(mGoogleApiClient); startIntentSenderForResult(i, REQ_CODE_OPEN, null, 0, 0, 0);4. Direct access to Drive functionalityAndroid 4.4 KitKatHow to get starteddocumentationdemoGoogle Drive GitHub repository+GoogleDrivegoogle-drive-sdkMagnus Hyttsten is a Developer Advocate on the Google Drive team. Beyond work, he enjoys trying out new technologies, thinking about product strategies, and exploring California.Posted by Scott Knaster, EditorCross posted on the Google Developers Blog.