Google Drive Folder Sync - Webhooks

In my previous post, we discussed how we were able to sync our files and folders with Google Drive. You can refer the post here - http://kiprosh.com/blog/google-drive-file-upload-pre-generated-file-id-for-uploads. Once we were done with the sync setup - next step is to ensure sync was accurate and timely i.e changes made in our application are accessed instantly in Google and more important changes made in Google are available in our application. We needed this without an impact on the performance - without polling Google to find out updates and nor writing any custom logic comparing timestamps to

Google Drive File Upload - Pre Generated File Id for Uploads

This is a one of the part of some of articles I wanted to publish for the things I learned or had less of web content when we were integrating a feature for Google Drive Folder Sync. Basic goal was to connect a Google Drive Folder and upload files from our app to Google and vice-versa. In this article we want to focus mainly on the uploads from our application. Why do we need the Pre Generated Id for Files? We are using Google Drive API V3 for this feature - https://developers.google.com/drive/v3/web/about-sdk. The