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Rubber Duck
Rubber Duck

Reputation: 3743

Can I access Google drive docs without a Google acount?

I want my android app to access a specific acount [not the user's account] and download a file. Is this possible?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 12977

Answers (3)

Rubber Duck
Rubber Duck

Reputation: 3743

What I was looking for, namely freemium cloud services, is better served by Google appEngine or Azure or Amazon or Apple cloud Freemium deals etc. Note that these are usually easy to implement but there are many scaling issues that should affect the decision. Importantly there is high cost in moving from one cloud platform to another because the code is idiosyncratic and useless outside the specific cloud.

Upvotes: 0

Jan Gerlinger
Jan Gerlinger

Reputation: 7415

This is generally possible using Service Accounts. Service Accounts however may not be used directly from Android applications, as Android wouldn't be able to protect your private key file.

A workaround would be to have a web application yourself that queries the data from Google using a Service Account and only connecting to your web application from Android. How you make sure that only your client can access your web application is then however in your responsibility.

Upvotes: 0

Thomas
Thomas

Reputation: 577

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

With this URL you can make yourself a google account using your own email adres: 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 Latum

Upvotes: 1

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