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• There’s minimal impact on the weight of your apps. As the client library is a stub to Google Play Services, incorporating the API has minimal impact on the size of your .apk binaries, resulting in faster downloads, fewer updates, and smaller execution footprint.
  
• User files are automatically synced between different devices (provided the app has the same namespace and is signed with the same key).
  
• Any device running the Gingerbread or later releases of Android and Google Play Services will automatically have support for the Google Drive Android API.

// Launch user interface and allow user to select file
    IntentSender i = Drive.DriveApi
        .newOpenFileActivityBuilder()
        .setMimeType(new String[] { “text/plain” })
        .build(mGoogleApiClient);
    startIntentSenderForResult(i, REQ_CODE_OPEN, null, 0, 0, 0);

Did you know you can write a complete Google Drive App with JavaScript that runs completely in the web browser? You can! Your browser-based application, including Chrome extensions, can take advantage of our client library, or just use CORS requests to the API.

Your app can support all the functionality of the Drive API, including uploading files, downloading files, tracking changes, listing files and managing revisions. Also you can take advantage of our user interface components that make opening and sharing files easy.

We are really keen to offer first-class support to browser-based applications, so we have added JavaScript snippets to all our API reference documentation. Please let us know how we are doing by posting to Stack Overflow.

Want to try it out? Check out our Javascript Quickstart Guide, which helps you get your application up and running in five minutes or so.

Ali Afshar profile | twitter Tech Lead, Google Drive Developer Relations. As an eternal open source advocate, he contributes to a number of open source applications, and is the author of the PIDA Python IDE. Once an intensive care physician, he has a special interest in all aspects of technology for healthcare

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