UserRecoverableAuthException: NeedPermission

Question

I tried to follow tutorial: https://developers.google.com/android/guides/http-auth.

Code:

token = GoogleAuthUtil.getToken(getApplicationContext(),
                        mEmail, mScope);

Manifest:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.NETWORK"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.USE_CREDENTIALS"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>

Errors:

01-17 18:37:38.230: W/System.err(3689): com.google.android.gms.auth.UserRecoverableAuthException: NeedPermission
01-17 18:37:38.230: W/System.err(3689):     at com.google.android.gms.auth.GoogleAuthUtil.getToken(Unknown Source)
01-17 18:37:38.230: W/System.err(3689):     at com.google.android.gms.auth.GoogleAuthUtil.getToken(Unknown Source)
01-17 18:37:38.230: W/System.err(3689):     at com.example.mgoogleauth.MainActivity$GetIOStreamTask.doInBackground(MainActivity.java:39)
01-17 18:37:38.230: W/System.err(3689):     at com.example.mgoogleauth.MainActivity$GetIOStreamTask.doInBackground(MainActivity.java:1)
01-17 18:37:38.230: W/System.err(3689):     at android.os.AsyncTask$2.call(AsyncTask.java:287)
01-17 18:37:38.230: W/System.err(3689):     at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:305)
01-17 18:37:38.230: W/System.err(3689):     at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:137)
01-17 18:37:38.230: W/System.err(3689):     at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1076)
01-17 18:37:38.230: W/System.err(3689):     at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:569)
01-17 18:37:38.230: W/System.err(3689):     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:856)

Answer 1

Try following the Drive quickstart for Android, it is a step-by-step guide showing how to authorize and upload a file to Drive: https://developers.google.com/drive/quickstart-android

To be more specific, it looks like you are not catching the UserRecoverableException and triggering the intent to have the user authorize the app. This is documented in the Google Play Services docs you linked and handled in the quickstart sample as follows:

...
} catch (UserRecoverableAuthIOException e) {
  startActivityForResult(e.getIntent(), REQUEST_AUTHORIZATION);
}
...