Google Drive Android API - Check if folder exists

After a lot of research this is the code I ended up with. It works properly, but has an issue: When a folder is trashed in Google Drive it takes some time (hours) before the metadata I can fetch from my app is updated, meaning that this code can first detect if the folder has been trashed a couple of hours later the trashing event actually happened - further information and discussions can be found here.

public class checkFolderActivity extends BaseDemoActivity {

    @Override
    public void onConnected(Bundle connectionHint) {
        super.onConnected(connectionHint);

        DriveId folderId = DriveId.decodeFromString(folderId);
        DriveFolder folder = Drive.DriveApi.getFolder(mGoogleApiClient, folderId);
        folder.getMetadata(mGoogleApiClient).setResultCallback(metadataRetrievedCallback);

    }

     final private ResultCallback<DriveResource.MetadataResult> metadataRetrievedCallback = new
        ResultCallback<DriveResource.MetadataResult>() {
            @Override
            public void onResult(DriveResource.MetadataResult result) {
                if (!result.getStatus().isSuccess()) {
                    Log.v(TAG, "Problem while trying to fetch metadata.");
                    return;
                }

                Metadata metadata = result.getMetadata();
                if(metadata.isTrashed()){
                    Log.v(TAG, "Folder is trashed");
                }else{
                    Log.v(TAG, "Folder is not trashed"); 
                }

            }
        };
}

If you're creating a folder based on it's existence status, the 'createTree()' method here does just that.

The following 2 code snippets list files/folders based on arguments passed ( inside a folder, globally, based on MIME type ...). The line with md.getTitle() is the one that you can use to interrogate files/folders.

GoogleApiClient _gac;
void findAll(String title, String mime, DriveFolder fldr) {
  ArrayList<Filter> fltrs = new ArrayList<Filter>();
  fltrs.add(Filters.eq(SearchableField.TRASHED, false));
  if (title != null)  fltrs.add(Filters.eq(SearchableField.TITLE, title));
  if (mime  != null)  fltrs.add(Filters.eq(SearchableField.MIME_TYPE, mime));
  Query qry = new Query.Builder().addFilter(Filters.and(fltrs)).build(); 
  MetadataBufferResult rslt = (fldr == null) ? Drive.DriveApi.query(_gac, qry).await() : 
                                               fldr.queryChildren(_gac, qry).await();
  if (rslt.getStatus().isSuccess()) {
    MetadataBuffer mdb = null;
    try { 
      mdb = rslt.getMetadataBuffer();
      if (mdb == null) return null;
      for (Metadata md : mdb) {
        if ((md == null) || md.isTrashed()) continue; 
        --->>>> md.getTitle()
      }
    } finally { if (mdb != null) mdb.close(); } 
  }
}

void listAll(DriveFolder fldr) {
  MetadataBufferResult rslt = fldr.listChildren(_gac).await();
  if (rslt.getStatus().isSuccess()) {
    MetadataBuffer mdb = null;
    try { 
      mdb = rslt.getMetadataBuffer();
      if (mdb == null) return null;
      for (Metadata md : mdb) {
        if ((md == null) || md.isTrashed()) continue; 
        --->>>> md.getTitle()
      }
    } finally { if (mdb != null) mdb.close(); } 
  }
}

The key is probably checking the "isTrashed()" status. Since 'remove' file on the web only moves it to TRASH. Also, deleting in general (on the website, since there is no 'DELETE' in the API) is a bit flaky. I was testing it for a while, and it may take hours, before the "isTrashed()" status is updated. And manually emptying the trash in Google Drive is also unreliable. See this issue on Github.

There is a bit more talk here, but probably unrelated to your problem.