Google I/O 2012 - Writing Efficient Drive Apps for Android
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it as the official walkthrough for integrating an Android app with the Google Drive SDK, including the Drive API and Google Play Services approach.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2012 to 2012.
What it is
A Google I/O 2012 session by Google developer advocates Alain Vongsouvanh and Claudio Cherubino on building Android apps that integrate with Google Drive. It covers synchronizing files with Android devices, opening Drive files, and creating new files from within an app.
What people said
Recommends Nicolas Garnier · 2012-04 · Stack Overflow · on “Google Drive\Docs API for Android”
EDIT: Since we launched the Google Drive SDK v2 the preferred way is to use the Drive API (and not the Document List API). There is a full-access scope which gives you access to listing and reading all the drive files and which can be used in Android apps easily since our newer client library [LINK] is Android-friendly! I also recommend watching this talk from Google IO [this video] which is explains how to integrate mobile apps with Drive. You can also use the per-file scope and integrate with the Drive Android App [LINK] intents. We are coming with full sample apps and dev guides so please stay put. This has already been answered in this SO post [LINK] . Basically currently the Google Drive SDK
Recommends Claudio Cherubino · 2012-08 · Stack Overflow · on “Android Open and Save files to/from Google Drive SDK”
Check this video from Google I/O to learn how to integrate your Android app with Drive: [this video] Please be aware that what you see in the video is based on Google Play Services: [LINK]
Cites Jacek Kwiecień · 2012-07 · Stack Overflow · on “Minimal Android API for an app integrated with Google Drive”
I just watched this I/O part [this video] and it's amazing. I was wondering if I could achieve something like Google Drive access (like for backup reasons) on my app that uses minimum API 7 (2.1). Anybody tried that?