Google Drive API: Change Slide During The Presentation

Question

I need to get some work done with the Google Drive API for Android. My aim is to control via the API the current slide of a presentation, so on a computer a presentation is opened in "present"-View. Is there a way to get the user's opened presentation and change then with the API the slide? Some research didn't help me, so maybe you have some information?

Answer 1

Maybe it's doable if you've written your own presentation app that utilizes Drive somehow. If you mean the default presentation function when viewing slides, then no, the Drive SDK has no control over that. Also, if you're trying to utilize the Android API in hopes it'd be some sort of remote, I suggest you look into Google Cast instead.

Answer 2

The Drive APIs provide file management, rather than direct access to the viewing apps.

As far as I'm aware there isn't an API that will allow you to access a user's Slides viewing state across devices.