I am facing a bug with Realtime API of Google Drive SDK and I like to know if there is an issue tracker where I can check if that issue is registered and eventually fill a new one.
There are no official bug trackers for the Google Drive service.
There is this page, which lists the known issues encountered using Google Drive :
http://support.google.com/drive/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=known_issues.cs
And this other one that links to Google Drive service's forum, where yo can actually report an issue (look at the proposed categories):
https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/drive
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We're having problems with Google Plus API. Since yesterday it sends timeouts for some of our requests (most of them). Does anyone that uses the API has experienced this problem? I have problem contacting someone from Goggle plus to explain the behaviour
This might have something to do with the announcement:
The photos space will sunset in early January 2018. Your users can
continue to access Google Photos via the drive space by enabling the
Google Photos folder in My Drive in the Drive client settings
This is currently posted in Drive API docs.
Check the How Google Photos works with Google Drive for more info.
I'm using Google Maps API in my application. I want to use Google Drive too. Do I need to create a new key and project in google developer console, or just enable Google Drive?
Just enabling Google Drive would be fine.
According to the console help docs:
a project is a collection of settings, credentials, and metadata about the application or applications you're working on that make use of Google Developer APIs and Google Cloud resources.
So in other words, one project == one app.
https://developers.google.com/console/help/new/?hl=en_US#managing-projects-in-the-developers-console
Hope this help!
I have gone through Quickstart with Google Drive and I have also used Google Play Services. The docs for Google Drive outline the process of how the authorization flow works. The docs also indicate that developers should not use Drive initiated authorization although it appears that the Quickstart sample app does exactly that. I am left with the impression that Google prefers that the developer handle all the details of authorization.
Yet after trying out sample code that uses Google Play Services (but not for Google Drive), I am left with the impression that Google wants developers to use Google Play Services to handle all the authorization. It seems that Google Play Services simplify the authorization process significantly. Although the docs don't say this, I found elsewhere online that GoogleAuthUtil.getToken manages how access and refresh tokens are retrieved, especially after they expire.
Basically, the issue I am struggling with to understand is whether the Google Drive docs for the API are out of date and Google wants us to rely upon Google Play Services. There seems to be a lot of complexity in the Google Drive authorization process that Google Play Services has eliminated. At the same time, the docs for Google Drive API has been available for over half a year, so it makes me question why Google hasn't updated these docs to show any reflection on how Google Play Services are used with it.
Any insight into this would be appreciated.
The recommended approach for authorization on Android is using Google Play Services. The Android quickstart guide on the Google Drive SDK documentation covers exactly that:
https://developers.google.com/drive/quickstart-android
The Google Drive docs are out of date and Google should really update them. Retrieving tokens and authenticating users should be done using Google Play Services. The only thing you should be using the Google Drive API for is accessing the Google Drive service. Google Play Services handles all the details of authenticating users, retrieving access and refresh tokens and handling all the errors that can arise.
I want to build desktop application for Windows OS and use Google Drive to save some data in the cloud. After reading Google Drive SDK I found that only Web-applications, were installed from Chrome Web Store are allowed to use API and have access to data on Google Drive.
So my question: do I have any way to build native client (C++, Windows) for Google Drive? I know about hacks with using Google Docs API - but they can stop working any time, and I want something stable. Why Google team do not allow me create desktop application for their service? I have support of many other cloud storages and they do not have such restrictions.
Thanks.
For now you will have to use the (older) Google Document List API which provides full read-write and list access to Google Drive. (Google Drive and the former Google Docs use the same data)
So until we extend the capabilities of the current Drive API to cover the Google Document List use case you should use that instead.
EDIT: We just launched the v2 of the Google Drive SDK so you should now use that instead.
I have been working on a similar problem. I have realized that there is no straight forward way for doing this. Google Drive SDK is not easy to work with and how someone can simplify the process of connecting desktop application to Google drive shortly. I know this is not much help, but I am looking for a soltuion as well.
Here is some links that I have come across, haven't solved my problem either, but if you come to a solution please let us know PLEASE:
How to make GUI Client to upload file in java
Using Java APIs for downloading file from the Google Drive
http://www.coderanch.com/t/643120/Servlets/java/upload-file-drop-box-file
Given Google drive is brand spanking new. I expect there will be lots of changes, more documentation, new code examples, changes in the API. Is there some sort of mailing list or ??? I can use to stay on top of these updates?
Thanks
Andy
The Google Drive SDK has no mailing list. All questions are handled on Stack Overflow, under the google-drive-sdk tag.
For updates about changes to the SDK, subscribe to the Google Apps Developer Blog. Our standard practice is to post about all updates there.
As far as I know there isn't really a mailing list. However, Google does provide many sources for content related to Google Drive. Here is a list:
Google Blog - Introducing Google Drive... yes, really
Twitter - #google
Google Drive Product Forums - Ask, Report, Share
Google Drive SDK - Develop Application Support for Google Drive
Google Drive Help - Customer and Developer
You could do what I did.
Just hover your mouse on the google-drive-sdk tag. You will see two options. Choose between email/RSS.
Attached is the image.
http://goo.gl/bGV8h
Edit: Corrected the link