My talk at the GDG Philippines Google Apps Challenge Meetup/Hackaton (July 6, 2012)

1. Introduction to
Google Drive
API
Jomar Tigcal
GDG Philippines
Google Apps Developer Challenge Workshop/Hackaton
July 6-7, 2012

2. Jomar Tigcal
● Community Manager of GDG Philippines
● Mobile Apps Developer (Software Engineer)
at Stratpoint Technologies, Inc.
http://jomar.tigcal.com
+Jomar Tigcal
@jomartigcal

3. What is Google Drive?
● Create and collaborate.
○ Google Docs (Documents, spreadsheets and
presentations.)
○ Share content, comments and receive notifications
● Store everything safely and access it anywhere
○ http://drive.google.com
○ Drive Android App
○ Mac and PC apps
● Search
○ Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

4. Google Drive API
* Chrome Web Store
The app must be installed from the Chrome
Web Store to be able to access the APIs.

5. How Google Drive Apps Work
● Install the app via Chrome Web Store

6. How Google Drive Apps Work
● Authorize access

7. How Google Drive Apps Work
● Acessing files
○ Files created by your app
○ Files opened using your app
● Create/open files from Google Drive
● Open a file from your app

8. How Google Drive Apps Work
● Opening a file in Google Drive

9. How Google Drive Apps Work
● Creating a file from Google Drive

10. How Google Drive Apps Work
● Opening a file from your app

11. Developing Google Drive
Apps

12. Register the app
● Go to Google APIs console (http://code.
google.com/apis/console)
● Create an API Project
● Select Services
● Turn on Drive API and Drive SDK
● Create OAuth 2.0 Client ID
● Provide developer info, icon and other
details

13. Create a Chrome Web Store Listing
● Go to the Chrome Web Store Developer
Dashboard (https://chrome.google.
com/webstore/developer/dashboard)
● Create a new listing
● Modify the listing for Google Drive
● Publish to TEST ACCOUNTS

14. Example
URL: http://drive.jomartigcal.appspot.com
Java Code:
https://github.com/jomartigcal/google-drive-api-
java-sample

15. Resources
Documentation:
https://developers.google.com/drive
API Reference: https://developers.google.
com/drive/v1/reference/
SDK Downloads: https://developers.google.
com/drive/downloads

16. Resources
Stack Overflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/google-
drive-sdk
Support Page (Consumer/Developer)
https://support.google.com/drive/?
hl=en&p=web_home
Google Apps Developer Blog:
http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/

17. Questions?

18. Thank you very much!

19. Introduction to
Google Drive
API
Jomar Tigcal
GDG Philippines
Google Apps Developer Challenge Workshop/Hackaton
July 6-7, 2012