Can I access Google Drive documents without Google?

Question

I want my Android app to access a specific account [not a user account] and upload a file. Is it possible?

Answer 1

To use google docs, you need a google account. This does not require a google mail account.

Using this URL, you can make your google account using your own email address: https://accounts.google.com/NewAccount?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2F%23&followup = https% 3A% 2F% 2Fdocs.google.com% 2F & service = writely & ltmpl = homepage

Good luck

Thomas van Lathum

Answer 2

This is possible with service accounts . However, service accounts cannot be used directly from Android applications, as Android cannot protect your private key file.

A workaround would be to have your own web application that requests data from Google using a service account and only to connect to your Android web application. However, you are responsible for ensuring that only your client can access your web application.

Answer 3

What I was looking for, namely freemium cloud services, is better served by Google applications appEngine or Azure or Amazon or Apple Cloud Freemium, etc. Please note that they are usually easy to implement, but there are many scaling problems that should affect the solution.It is important to note that when moving from one cloud platform to another there is a high cost, because the code is unusual and useless outside of a particular cloud.