
Microsoft is trying to make it easier for users to distinguish when they are saving and accessing files, documents, and photos in OneDrive consumer vs. There are still separate OneDrive consumer and OneDrive for Business storage services. With today's new unified OneDrive app for Android, nothing has changed from a back-end perspective. OneDrive for Business is a feature of Office 365 and/or SharePoint. That may sound like a no-brainer move, but the two different OneDrives have shared little but the OneDrive name. The updated Android OneDrive app is available for download for free from the Google Play store as of August 28.Ī few months ago, Microsoft moved the different teams working on a consumer version of its OneDrive cloud storage service and the business version of that same service into the same business unit. Microsoft has released an updated version of its OneDrive for Android cloud-storage app that adds for the first time on Android support for OneDrive for Business. I followed some advice from this post How to download and save a file from Internet using Java?Īnd have managed to download the file from OneDrive.Microsoft is trying to make it easier for users to distinguish when they are saving and accessing content in OneDrive consumer vs. If anyone has a simpler solution, I'd love to hear it.

Although I really was surprised there isn't and easier way to download a file. IPickerResult result = mPicker.getPickerResult(requestCode, resultCode, data) Thanks! if (requestCode = ONEDRIVE_CHOOSER_REQUEST) Now that I have the Uri, please help me with how to get a local copy of the file so that I can use it. I've done some searches to find out how to download a file give the weblink, but they either seem way to complicated or have not worked.īelow is the code for the onactivity result from the OneDrive picker.

I would have thought this would be simple (As Dropbox made downloading a local copy part of their picker function) but it seems OneDrive has not.

I would now like to download (make a copy) of the file to the local storage on the Android device. My app then gets the weblink that points to the file. I have implemented the OneDrive picker in my app to allow the user to easily select a file from the OneDrive cloud storage.
