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The application data folder is a special hidden folder that your app can use to store application-specific data, such as configuration files ... Home Public Questions Tags Users Companies Collectives ExploreCollectives Teams StackOverflowforTeams –Startcollaboratingandsharingorganizationalknowledge. CreateafreeTeam WhyTeams? Teams CreatefreeTeam Collectives™onStackOverflow Findcentralized,trustedcontentandcollaboratearoundthetechnologiesyouusemost. LearnmoreaboutCollectives Teams Q&Aforwork Connectandshareknowledgewithinasinglelocationthatisstructuredandeasytosearch. LearnmoreaboutTeams CanIbackupuserdataaccordingtoGoogleDriveAPITermsofService? AskQuestion Asked 1year,7monthsago Modified 1year,7monthsago Viewed 458times 1 ToSstates-https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/terms: "TheDriveAPIisnotallowedforcertainusecaseswithoutGoogle’sexpresspriorwrittenconsent,includingthefollowing: Backupofuser/appcontentfromdeveloper’sapptoDrive." WhileonIntroductiontoGoogleDriveAPIweread-https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/about-sdk: "YoucanuseGoogleDriveAPIto: CreateadedicatedDrivefoldertostoreyourapplication’sdatasothattheappcannotaccessalltheuser'scontentstoredinGoogleDrive.SeeStoreapplication-specificdata." SocanIuseittostoreuserdata,whichitgenerateswhileusingtheappandautosyncitlikeViberdoes?Itcouldbe.jsonfiles,maybephotos. google-apigoogle-drive-api Share Improvethisquestion Follow editedDec30,2020at16:56 DaImTo 92.3k2727goldbadges158158silverbadges398398bronzebadges askedDec30,2020at16:30 JohnJohn 32522silverbadges1010bronzebadges Addacomment  |  1Answer 1 Sortedby: Resettodefault Highestscore(default) Trending(recentvotescountmore) Datemodified(newestfirst) Datecreated(oldestfirst) 2 Theapplicationdatafolderisaspecialhiddenfolderthatyourappcanusetostoreapplication-specificdata,suchasconfigurationfiles.Theapplicationdatafolderisautomaticallycreatedwhenyouattempttocreateafileinit.Usethisfoldertostoreanyfilesthattheusershouldn'tdirectlyinteractwith.ThisfolderisonlyaccessiblebyyourapplicationanditscontentsarehiddenfromtheuserandfromotherDriveapps. There'sabigdifferencebetweenuser/appcontentfromdeveloper’sappandconfigurationfile. Share Improvethisanswer Follow answeredDec30,2020at16:56 DaImToDaImTo 92.3k2727goldbadges158158silverbadges398398bronzebadges 4 SoifIunderstoodright,Iwon'tviolatetheTermsifIwouldcreatethathiddenapplicationdatafolder,andwouldstoreandsyncanyneededdatainit?Notonlyconfiguration,butmediafiles,specificdata(notesforexample)storedintextformat? – John Dec30,2020at21:06 ah,sorry,IthinkIgotit.Icanstoreapplication,notuserspecificdata,soIcan'tstoresomethinglikeuser'snotes,right?Iwonderwhyisthat,ifonlyuserandappwillbeseeingit?AndhowdoIgetthat"Google’sexpresspriorwrittenconsent"?IwrotetoGoogleDrivesupportandtheycouldnothelporredirectmyquestioninanyway.TherearenoDriveAPIsupport,etc. – John Dec30,2020at21:19 1 Allofthisisaverygraylineandopenforinterpretation.Whenyougothroughtheverificationprocessifyourdoinganythingwrongimsuregooglewillletyouknow. – DaImTo Dec31,2020at10:56 1 @DalmToIthinkFirestoreiswhatGooglewouldlikeustouseinthissituation.Anothersolutionisjustmanualexporting.Thankyouforyouranswer! – John Dec31,2020at14:15 Addacomment  |  YourAnswer ThanksforcontributingananswertoStackOverflow!Pleasebesuretoanswerthequestion.Providedetailsandshareyourresearch!Butavoid…Askingforhelp,clarification,orrespondingtootheranswers.Makingstatementsbasedonopinion;backthemupwithreferencesorpersonalexperience.Tolearnmore,seeourtipsonwritinggreatanswers. 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