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Jesson Atherton
Jesson Atherton

Reputation: 654

Correct way to connect to Google Cloud Storage from Android clients

I have been searching around and have found several examples of ways to connect to Cloud Storage from Android clients but these methods are quite old now. This is generally using a p12 file and newer examples show .json files to hold settings.

I have looked at this... https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/json_api/v1/json-api-java-samples and it sais "Note: This client library is separate from the Google Cloud Storage client library, another option for interfacing with the the JSON API using Java." giving multiple options!

So my question is.. What is the correct way to implement the client (Android) side of Cloud Storage?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 422

Answers (1)

Nathan Herring
Nathan Herring

Reputation: 977

The Cloud Storage JSON API Client Library for Java is an older, auto-generated client that is used as the underpinnings for the newer, under-development Google Cloud Java Client for Storage. The latter is part of the google-cloud project, and aims to reduce the amount of boilerplate code needed to interact with the service. If you have a pointer to your Android sample that needs updating, we can take a look.

Another option for mobile development is to use Firebase Storage, which ultimately writes into Google Cloud Storage. Firebase is all about mobile and untrusted clients, and provides additional security rules that allow you to provide access to users that do not have a Google account.

Upvotes: 1

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