app not working and log shows Unsupported scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive

[jacobhub]

I am trying to test the drive api, I manage to login but when trying to use drive api app crashes and logcat shows:

01-15 14:03:34.481 3090 3177 E ClientConnectOperation: nzh: Authorization failed: Unsupported scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive
01-15 14:03:34.481 3090 3177 E ClientConnectOperation: at nzl.a(:com.google.android.gms@11951440:25)
01-15 14:03:34.481 3090 3177 E ClientConnectOperation: at nvy.(:com.google.android.gms@11951440:26)
01-15 14:03:34.481 3090 3177 E ClientConnectOperation: at nxh.a(:com.google.android.gms@11951440:72)
01-15 14:03:34.481 3090 3177 E ClientConnectOperation: at swi.run(:com.google.android.gms@11951440:11)
01-15 14:03:34.481 3090 3177 E ClientConnectOperation: at mvc.run(:com.google.android.gms@11951440:26)
01-15 14:03:34.481 3090 3177 E ClientConnectOperation: at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1133)
01-15 14:03:34.481 3090 3177 E ClientConnectOperation: at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:607)
01-15 14:03:34.481 3090 3177 E ClientConnectOperation: at nak.run(:com.google.android.gms@11951440)
01-15 14:03:34.481 3090 3177 E ClientConnectOperation: at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:761)

[sgong-pdftron]

Getting this as well... Anyone found any solution? Thanks!

[grant]

Can you be more specific which file/sample?

[sgong-pdftron]

I tried https://github.com/gsuitedevs/android-samples/blob/master/drive/demos/app/src/main/java/com/google/android/gms/drive/sample/demo/RetrieveMetadataActivity.java, the moment pickTextFile is called, I get "Unsupported scope" error shown in the title.

[sgong-pdftron]

Not sure if it matters, I was using Google v11.8.0. Tested on Moto G4.

[sgong-pdftron]

@grant were you able to reproduce or more information is needed? Thanks!

[grant]

Thanks for the details and pardon the response.
Is this post related? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29329863/google-drive-scopes-deprecated

I'm not sure of the issue here. (This sample was imported from a previous author).

CC @asrivas @sqrrrl who might understand this error more.

Pull Requests are welcome if you're able to fix the issue.

[sqrrrl]

Looking at BaseDemoActivity it only requests the file and appdata scopes. Just ran it myself (on emulator) and worked as expected.

@jacobhub and @sgong-pdftron - Did either of you modify BaseDemoActivity or make any other changes around auth?

[kbboss]

@sqrrrl hi , I have some troubles about how to file’s thumnail . How do you use api to get thumnail?

#83

[erickoledadevrel]

It looks like your problems are with the API in general, and not these samples in particular. In that case, please see the support options here:

https://developers.google.com/drive/android/support

In regards to the scope issue, it is by design:

Note: The Google Drive Android API currently only supports drive.file and drive.appfolder authorization scopes. If your application requires additional permissions or features not yet available in the Drive Android API, you must use the Google APIs Java Client.

https://developers.google.com/drive/android/auth#connecting_and_authorizing_the_google_drive_android_api