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Restrict Access to your Google App Engine API using Service Account

I needed to access my restricted Google App Engine API from an Android App using a Service account. Let's say, I don't want to ask my users to authenticate with their Google accounts to my Android App, and I also don't want any third party access my App Engine API. All the documentation I found online was about how to authenticate with backend using users, but nothing about using service accounts. Even on many StackOverFlow articles people say it is not possible.

So, here is summary of steps: More...