I’m trying to get access to the Google Drive API using RestKit on iOS

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Asked: June 6, 20262026-06-06T16:03:27+00:00 2026-06-06T16:03:27+00:00

I’m trying to get access to the Google Drive API using RestKit on iOS

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I’m trying to get access to the Google Drive API using RestKit on iOS but I’m having problems with the Oauth authentification.

I’ve been following the Wiki page they have on the subject here:
Oauth Support On RestKit

Basically we create the client like this:

oauthClient = [RKClientOAuth clientWithClientID:[Client Id] secret:[Client Secret] delegate:[Your Delegate]];
[oauthClient setAuthorizationCode:[User Authorization Code]];
[oauthClient setAuthorizationURL:[Authorization Endpoint]];
[oauthClient setCallbackURL:[Your application callbackurl]];
[oauthClient validateAuthorizationCode];

And we receive an access token on the delegate in the method

- (void)OAuthClient:(RKOAuthClient *)client didAcquireAccessToken:(NSString *)token

Here we can create an ObjectManager to make the requests and all the other operations

RKObjectManager* objectManager = [RKObjectManager sharedManager];
objectManager.client.baseURL = @"YOUR API URL";
objectManager.client.OAuth2AccessToken = @"YOUR ACCESS TOKEN";
objectManager.client.authenticationType = RKRequestAuthenticationTypeOAuth2;

With all this I have encountered a few problems.

First is how do we obtain the authorization code needed here:
```
[oauthClient setAuthorizationCode:[User Authorization Code]];
```
I haven’t had problems with Client Id, Client Secret, Authorization Endpoint, Callback URL and API URL as they are provided mostly in the google console API but I don’t know how to obtain that.
Second is the Access Token would be a temporal Access Token or a Refresh Token as they are named in the google API? If it’s the first, how can we obtain a Refresh Token?

I’ve been trying to do this with RestKit but there may be better ways so I’m open to other ideas. I can’t find much information about Oauth support in Restkit.

Thanks beforehand