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A short description of the request:

A function to convert a content: URI from the Android file picker to a fileID, given that the file it points to is in Drive.

What is the purpose of this new feature?

So that files chosen using the system picker can be passed into e.g. permissions().create() in order to share a user-chosen file.

What existing APIs would this affect?

None (barring implementation details like a new ContentResolver column). It can be a new (static or instance) method in Drive.

What existing data does this use?

File IDs and whatever is used to decode content URIs.

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