How to share Google Drive file from Android app?

Question

My Android app creating a file on Google Drive using new Google Drive API. I'm getting DriveFile object successfully.

The question is: how to share this file from my app? Links to relevant topics and especially code samples are appreciated.

Answer 1

The Android-specific API does not yet support sharing. You can use the RESTful web API to do this. See permissions .

From a DriveId you can get the resourceId, which is the id you need in order to access a file in the web API.

Answer 2

Permission newPermission = new Permission();
newPermission.setValue(emailvalue);
newPermission.setType(type);
newPermission.setRole(role);
try {
   service.permissions().insert(fid, newPermission).execute();
   showToast("Done Shared successfully!!!!!!");
} catch (IOException e) {
  System.out.println("An error occurred: " + e);
}