title: Access Google Drive from a desktop application
body: <blockquote>
    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10306456/android-api-for-google-drive">Android API for Google Drive?</a>  </p>
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  <p>I want to synchronize a single small xml file between Android application and separate standalone Java-based desktop application. First, a user pushes a button in the Android application and the xml file is stored somewhere in the cloud. Next, the user launches standalone desktop application and gets the xml file from the cloud.</p>
  
  <p>I wanted to use Google Drive for this purpose. However, I am confused about the following from Google Drive help pages:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Warning: Authorization alone is not sufficient to give your app access
    to users' files — app installation is also required. Apps will not
    have any API access to files unless users have first installed the app
    in Chrome Web Store.</p>
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  <p>Is there a way to directly grab/write a file from/to Google Drive having the credentials? Or at least a way with least problems for the end user?</p>