Google Drive as Datastore

This project aims to use a user's personal Google Drive space as a dbstore for web and/or mobile frontend apps.

As an app developer, if you have an use case where you want to sync/store data of each user that he/she can access across multiple apps (web, desktop, mobile), then you can make use of the user's Google Drive space.

Example Use case

You are making an app that keeps track of user's expenses. You have made mobile apps, and now you also want to make a webapp dashboard. To keep the data synced, you have to host a database server yourself - and as an indie developer that is costly. It also makes sense to let each user save their data on their own storage solution instead of on the developer's server (privacy)

How to use

NOTE: This is just an example project showing how to use on a webapp and on Android

1. Make a Google Drive App on Google Dev Console

Go to https://console.developers.google.com Make a new project (let's call it drive-sync-test) Enable Google Drive API on it (https://console.developers.google.com/apis/library?project=drive-sync-test)

2. Enable the appropriate API keys

Go to https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials?project=drive-sync-test Create a Oauth credential for Web app Create an API key for Android App

3. Put API key in Android app

In the android project edit file app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml Replace XXXXXXXXXXXX with your API Key.

4. Put Oauth Client ID in webapp

In webapp, edit index.html Replace XXXXXXXXXXXXX with Oauth Client ID (The secret is not needed)

Test it out

1. First run the webapp, and open http://localhost:8888
2. After sigining in you'll find blank page
3. Now run Android app, and sign in with Google Drive. This will create a file appconfig.txt in Drive
4. Refresh the webapp, you can see the file there now.