Google Drive SDK

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

by jeffpalmer • 14 years ago

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cleverjake2• 14 years ago

"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."

While that does make it feel a bit more secure, that would be a huge hassel for anyone that wants to go stealth at first.

etrain• 14 years ago

Yeah, this seems kind of bogus - if I'm reading it right, you also have to be creating a webapp to use their API - so hope of implementing a Linux client on FUSE is low at this point.

willscott• 14 years ago

It seems like a better candidate for a linux FUSE client would be the existing document list API. It works with oauth, and lets you interact with documents.

The Drive API is a way to integrate new editor types into google docs.

jpdoctor• 14 years ago

> Apps will not have any API access to files unless the app has been installed in Chrome Web Store

I wish google would try being different than apple rather than the same.

mmahemoff• 14 years ago

While that does make it feel a bit more secure, that would be a huge hassel for anyone that wants to go stealth at first.

Chrome Web Store has an option for testing where you can whitelist authorised people by Google ID. It may not address the whole issue, but it helps.

cleverjake2• 14 years ago

Ah! Did not know that. Thank you for pointing that out.

VikingCoder3• 14 years ago

It's an API. Inevitably, someone will implement the API so you can run a local version of it, so you can test in stealth mode.

Carnage4Life• 14 years ago

Google Drive only works with Chrome Web Store apps? Strange. SkyDrive has SDKs for Windows Phone, iOS and Android apps at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/live/ff621310

PS: Yes, I work on the SkyDrive developer platform. It doesn't change the truth.

etherealG• 14 years ago

agreed, such a bad implementation of an api. why the association to chrome at all :(

VikingCoder3• 14 years ago

Google Drive synchs to your local hard drive, and thus works with all of your apps. (Right?)

It ALSO has a Chrome interface to be clever. Picture opening a 1,000 page PDF. If the Chrome PDF Viewer knows how to fetch individual pages on demand, do searches on the server side, etc., it could be very nice for quick previews, etc.

Also, it works great for one content creator (who has the app on the desktop), and a bunch of content viewers (and commenters) who just need Chrome.

haberman3• 14 years ago

My reading of this is that the Chrome Web Store is where apps are listed and users authorize them, but not necessarily that the app has to run in a web browser. The user could authorize the app by "installing" it through the Chrome Web Store but download/use it from a totally different channel.

PS: I work at Google but don't have any inside info on this.

TazeTSchnitzel2• 14 years ago

Chrome Web Store is exclusively for web apps. It's essentially Chrome's and Chromebook's App Store.

option_greek• 14 years ago

I think its a pretty stupid move. If they really want developers to flock to Google drive, they should not limit the api to their little corner of the world. I'm guessing that they are going to open it to all apps eventually.

jbk• 14 years ago

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

I must be missing something obvious :)

TazeTSchnitzel2• 14 years ago

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

Or in other words, give _Chromebooks_ file associations.

sureshv2• 14 years ago

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

DenisM2• 14 years ago

.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?

densh• 14 years ago

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.

novalis• 14 years ago

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

bdonlan• 14 years ago

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.

VikingCoder3• 14 years ago

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.

bashzor2• 14 years ago

I wish people stopped flooding Hacker News with the same product. Or even more so, upvoting all five on the homepage alone. It's not like Drive is that great. Actually it very much pales next to Dropbox.

Newky• 14 years ago

In some areas perhaps it hasn't got some of the functionality that Dropbox has, but it also seems to be scratching a lot of itches which Dropbox isn't even considering scratching.

This is not to say Dropbox should consider. Just I don't think you could say this offering pales in comparison to Dropbox. The app SDK in particular looks exciting.

JoachimSchipper• 14 years ago

You're right, but "look, GDrive has an API" is actually kind of neat - this complaint would be more justified on the other threads, IMHO.

bashzor2• 14 years ago

That's true, should have looked for a better one to post this at.

huggyface• 14 years ago

It's not like Drive is that great. Actually it very much pales next to Dropbox.

That sounds remarkably sour. Nonetheless, it gets attention because it had been talked about for literally years (back to the latter 2000s). On the day of release it isn't super surprising that it's getting some love.

pjmlp• 14 years ago

No C or C++ support? :(

psweber• 14 years ago

This will be a good war.

SiVal• 14 years ago

It's interesting that on the About Google Drive page, they claim, "Data is inherently social."

Funny, I claim that my data is inherently private. Is it a coincidence that companies that would like to sell my data have the philosophy that my data is "inherently social"?

skore• 14 years ago

Even though I knew about Google Drive, my brain somewhat zoned out for a second and - probably under the influence of yesterdays Planetary Resources Announcement - I thought Google was releasing an SDK for autonomous cars.

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