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Asked: 2026-06-14T23:41:50+00:00

I have an existing Android app project which has been already published on the

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I have an existing Android app project which has been already published on the Google Play, and now I would like to incorporate in my app the possibility to use the Google Drive possibilities in order to download *.jpg files directly to the sd card when the app is opened or load for the first time. Like this I liberate the internal memories of the phones where this app is installed (All the images are stored in the resources of the app actually which is >~ 20MB). I have read a lot of forums concerning the Google Drive SDK or API subjects and I can say that I’m a little bit lost on the manner to manage it for my present app. Some ideas or suggestions would be very very very appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Please see this question for the basics on how to integrate your Android app with Google Drive SDK: Access to Google Drive from self implemented Android application

    In it, I reference a good Google+ tutorial on how to get started, and it’s easy enough to take the concepts and apply them to an existing app. (That’s how I did it too.) Before you get started, sign up for the Google APIs (https://code.google.com/apis/console/), get into the API Console, and turn on both the Google Drive API and Drive SDK. This’ll make coding go a lot smoother. Let me know if you have any problems.

    One addendum for your specific case relating to *.jpg files is you could set a MIME type for fetching strictly the pictures. It’d go something like this:

        request = service.files().list(); // .setQ("mimeType=\"text/plain\"");

    Unfortunately setQ is commented out because it would fail to return any results when I used it. However, you may have better luck with the image/jpeg MIME type.

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