![]() ![]() The new Drive API intentionally has a more restrictive security model to protect users' data. UPDATE (May 4th, 2012): Google Developer Advocate Steven Bazyl offers clarification on the above issue: It's likely that the Drive API will expand to offer more functionality in the future. To get a list of a user's existing Drive files, you'll have to go through the main Drive UI, the Google Picker API, or the Google Documents List API. The latter may seem like a catch-22-how do you open a new file, if you can only open files you've already opened?-but it just means that the Drive API is still pretty bare-bones, and depends on specific file IDs for access. Apps will not have any API access to files unless users have first installed the app in Chrome Web Store." However, this doesn't limit users to the Chrome browser it's simply a means to authenticate users and authorize access.Īnother caveat for developers is that Drive apps will only be able to access files which were created or opened by that app. (Google does offer a Drive Android app, and says they're "working hard" on an iOS app.) The Drive API documentation notes that "uthorization alone is not sufficient to give your app access to users' files - app installation is also required. The catch, for now, is that only web apps can use the Google Drive API, and those apps must be installed from the Chrome Web Store. ![]() Perhaps anticipating this, Google partnered with several "launch partners" (including Portland-based collaboration startup Revisu) to showcase apps which demonstrate the utility of the Drive API. Rumors about "GDrive" have been circulating for the last six years, but after competitors like Dropbox, Box.net, and Microsoft's SkyDrive had already pioneered cloud storage, Google Drive's big reveal could have seemed a little anticlimactic. The move implies that Drive is not just another Google product, but a step toward creating a larger ecosystem of online apps backed by Google services. Last week's launch of Google Drive, a cloud-based Platform offering 5GB of free storage, may have been big news, but perhaps bigger was the simultaneous launch of an associated Drive API and several Drive-enabled apps in the Chrome Web Store. ![]()
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