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Display the Google picker

The Google picker is a "File Open" dialog for the information stored on Google servers. You can use the Google Picker API to enable users to open or upload Google Drive files.

Note: To enable users to open Drive files from a mobile app, refer to Google Workspace APIs for Android or Google Workspace APIs for iOS.
Picker dialog

The Google Picker API is separate from the Google Drive API. For more information, refer to the Google Picker API.

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Last updated 2021-02-19 UTC.

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