Google Drive SDK

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mtgx3• 14 years ago

What has bothered me most about Google Drive lately, is that when I try to open an epub file from Drive, even if I make it available offline, it doesn't want to open the file in the selected book reader. Is that Google's fault or the book reader app's fault (it supports epub, obviously). This is on Android.

bduerst2• 14 years ago

Was it working before it was set in offline mode?

mtgx3• 14 years ago

No, it never worked. Normally when you try to open something you get that Android dialog that asks you to choose an app. And I would assume it's supposed to work like that with the stuff from inside Google Drive since it's downloading them to the phone anyway, but it doesn't work like that. It tries to open it with the app, but doesn't.

jrajav3• 14 years ago

They've had "DrEdit," a plain text editor, as their example Drive app for a while now. Kind of ironic, since you still can't edit plain text files in the vanilla Google Drive web app.

timothya3• 14 years ago

By the Google Drive web app I assume you mean the Google Docs editor? In which case, yeah, you can only edit Google Docs type files in their editor. That's the point of this SDK - if you want to edit other types of files, you can build an app to do so.

toomuchtodo• 14 years ago

So I could integrate a web-based IDE into Google Docs, and commit code directly from Google Docs onto a webserver?

Awesome.

jrajav3• 14 years ago

Well, 1) It clearly wouldn't be difficult for them to do this, or even to integrate it with the existing Docs editor. The Docs editor can already view them, in fact, so it's kind of baffling why they stopped short of editing. 2) It would be preferable for both usability and performance to have it integrated with Drive rather than as an external app. 3) The Android Drive app can already edit text files.

6ren• 14 years ago

Is there a running demo of DrEdit? Edit there's one on the chrome appstore

esolyt• 14 years ago

They should have released this immediately after they released Google Drive.

Andrex• 14 years ago

For the most part you could piggyback off the Google Docs API and SDKs if need be.

Bakkot• 14 years ago

It likely didn't exist yet. These things take time.

reg29• 14 years ago

Actually it was released a few months ago. The Google Apps Challenge 2012 [1] which started on June 5, is about apps built on top of it.

[1] http://www.google.com/events/gadc2012/

erok89• 14 years ago

They did...

Google Drive Release: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/introducing-google-dr...

Google Drive SDK release: http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2012/04/introducing-goo...

McGlockenshire• 14 years ago

The thing that they made available back then was for web applications only. This isn't.

taligent2• 14 years ago

Sorry but Google Drive is by far the worst out of all online storage/sync providers.

Crashes constantly for Mac users and has awful upload/download speeds. And they have made zero effort to do anything about it for over a year. You only have to look through the forum to see their commitment in general is pretty lax.

RobAtticus• 14 years ago

Google Drive has been out for less than half a year, not over a year. Also I've had more issues with Dropbox not syncing on Linux machines than I have with GDrive on OSX.

davorak• 14 years ago

Really I have used it since it came out and I can not remember it crashing once. Are the crashes caused perhaps by use cases I have not run into, large file, rapid updating or something else?

taligent2• 14 years ago

Nothing out of the ordinary. And crashing is one thing but how on earth does Google have such bad download/upload speeds.

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!categories/drive/rep...

51Cards• 14 years ago

This is somewhat off topic but I have found it mildly humourous lately that Google is building self driving cars but they chose "Google Drive" as the name for a completely unrelated product.

gyom• 14 years ago

Especially given that there was a link about the self-driving cars right following that link on Google Drive.

My brain just cognitively squished the two of them together and went "whoaa ... they're opening the SDK for the car stuff already !"

cpeterso• 14 years ago

I'm disappointed. I thought the same thing.

mtgx3• 14 years ago

Maybe they'll call that Google Self-Drive.

rogerbinns2• 14 years ago

Not to mention what exactly a "drive" is! In the olden days we knew what physical thing a drive was, and DOS/Windows made sure people knew what a drive letter was. But nowadays who knows or cares. To complete this branding they should use a floppy disk logo, or maybe an Iomega Zip "drive".

Insert obligatory rant about lack of Linux client.

dpark2• 14 years ago

Most PCs still have an optical drive. Everyone I know has a couple of usb thumb drives. I don't think people are struggling with the concept of a "drive".

jeffool2• 14 years ago

It never occurred to me they'd call their self-driving vehicles "Google Drive". It's the one thing you don't do. Maybe Google Auto, Google Transport, Google Car, or any of a number of names.

Though, I guess there's a good argument that "Google Drive" would be what "Google" does for you... Great, now you're convincing me!

iconjack• 14 years ago

I'm betting on Google Drive Engine.

hndl• 14 years ago

(Slightly off-topic) What I feel gives Google Drive a leverage over Dropbox is the fact that it works within email. There isn't another place I need to go to share something. I just go to the place I am at and share. The people who I want to share with are already there. This works for well for both, Google's general audience as well as those SMBs that use Google mail for their work mail (read: with a domain, so it even layers a "group thing" there).

malkia• 14 years ago

Why no "C" api?

Google Drive SDK

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