The Google Drive API allows you to create apps that leverage Google Drive cloud storage. You can develop applications that integrate with Google Drive, and create robust functionality in your application using Google Drive API.

Step Two: Choose Which Folders Will Get Synced from Google Drive. The Backup and Sync tool is split up into two main sections: Google Drive: This performs the same function as the original Google Drive app. You choose what folders to sync from your Google Drive cloud storage, and they’ll appear in a Google Drive folder on your PC. Google Drive is Google’s cloud service that enables you to store and synchronize your files for easy backup and access from multiple devices, such as your desktop computer, your smartphone, and your tablet. You can also use Google Drive to collaborate with others, sharing documents and allowing others to edit them in real time. Sign in - Google Accounts.

This diagram shows the relationship between your Google Drive app, Google Drive, and Google Drive API:

These terms define the key components shown in Figure 1:

Google Drive

Google's cloud file storage service that provides users with a personal storagespace, called My Drive, and the option to access collaborative sharedfolders, called shared drives.

Google Drive API

The REST API that allows you to leverage Google Drive storage from withinyour app.

Google Drive app

An app that leverages Google Drive as its storage solution.

Google Drive UI

Google's user interface that manages files stored on Google Drive. If your appis an editor-type app, such as a spreadsheet or word processor app, you canintegrate with the Drive UI to create and open files within your app.

My Drive

A Google Drive storage location that a specific user owns. Files stored onMy Drive can be shared with other users, but ownership of the content remainsspecific to an individual user.

OAuth 2.0

The authorization protocol that Google Drive API requires to authenticate your app users.If your application uses Google Sign-in, it handles the OAuth 2.0 flow and application access tokens.

Shared drive

A Google Drive storage location that owns files that multiple users share to collaborate. Any user with access to a shared drive has access to all files it contains. Users can also be granted access to individual files inside the shared drive.

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What can you do with Google Drive API?

You can use Google Drive API to:

• Download files from Google Drive and Upload files to Google Drive.
• Search for files and folders stored in Google Drive. Create complex search queries that return any of the file metadata fields in the Files resource.
• Let users share files, folders and drives to collaborate on content.
• Combine with the Google Picker API to search all files in Google Drive, then return the file name, URL, last modified date, and user.
• Create third-party shortcuts that are external links to data stored outside of Drive, in a different data store or cloud storage system.
• Create a dedicated Drive folder to store your application’s data so that the app cannot access all the user's content stored in Google Drive. See Store application-specific data.
• Integrate with the Google Drive UI, which is Google's standard web UI you can use to interact with Drive files. To learn all that you can do with a Drive app that you integrate with the Google Drive UI, see Drive UI integration overview

Next steps

To get started with Google Drive API:

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1. Try a quickstart to learn how to configure and run a Google Drive app.

2. Learn how to enable the Drive API within your app's Cloud Platform project.

3. Learn how to authenticate your users so they can access the Google Drive API with your Google Drive app.