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How am I supposed to integrate it within a desktop application? Within an Android application?

I must be missing something obvious :)



You aren't, I think this is an effort to give web apps file associations.

Or in other words, give _Chromebooks_ file associations.


There is a simple rest api for that:

https://developers.google.com/drive/v1/reference/

They should have definitely not hidden it so far away.


https://developers.google.com/drive/get_started

> Warning: Apps will not have any API access to files unless the app has been installed in Chrome Web Store. To test an app during development, you must first create a listing and install it.


First thing I found when I looked in. I kid you not.


A) Synchs to your local HD, so your applications don't know or care. (Right?)

B) Application developers can use an SDK to go directly to your Drive account, and do some extra tricks.


https://developers.google.com/drive/downloads


.NET library has not been updated recently, so I don't think it has the Drive APIs in it. Do you see any library that actually has Drive code in it?


Do you see any library that actually has Drive code in it?

https://code.google.com/p/google-api-go-client/source/browse...


You're right, these are just the generic Google API libraries.

There is a sample .NET app for GDrive: https://developers.google.com/drive/examples/dotnet


That's still not right - in step 5 it asks to register Chrome something or another. So it's only to write web apps, not native apps.


It looks like the Chrome Web Store is the centralized place for developers to list apps and for users to authorize them. But once the app is registered/authorized, I'm not sure how the server would have any idea whether requests were coming from a web app or a desktop app.

If this is the case, then a native app could exist Chrome Web Store solely for the purpose of letting users authorize the app to access their GDrive.




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