Hi,

I'm working on a prototype for an app using Google Cloud Vision API. I followed their quick start setup guide and everything was fine: I was able to run successfully the "gcloud auth application-default print-access-token" command in the terminal.

Once I run this code in my Xamarin Forms app:

var client = ImageAnnotatorClient.Create();
var response = client.DetectText(scan);
foreach (var annotation in response)
{
       if (annotation.Description != null)
         Console.WriteLine(annotation.Description);
}

I got this Exception:

System.InvalidOperationException

The Application Default Credentials are not available. They are available if running in Google Compute Engine. Otherwise, the environment variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS must be defined pointing to a file defining the credentials. See "Link that I can't post because I'm new to the forum" for more information.

Which is self-explanatory, however, I run printenv, env, echo $GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS and all of them shows me the variable being there. Also I can run without a problem the "gcloud auth application-default print-access-token" command too, so I doubt I have failed to set the environment variable.

To solve that I added the following code before creating the client variable:

Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS", "/Users/myuser/Documents/AFolderIMade/TheFileIDownloadedThatHoldsTheCredentials.json");

And I got this new exception:

System.InvalidOperationException
Error reading credential file from location /Users/myuser/Documents/AFolderIMade/TheFileIDownloadedThatHoldsTheCredentials.json: Could not find a part of the path "/Users/myuser/Documents/AFolderIMade/TheFileIDownloadedThatHoldsTheCredentials.json".

Please check the value of the Environment Variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS

Which made me think I just entered the path to the credentials wrong but again I checked and it was correct.

To this point I couldn't think of another solution nor I could find one by googling around. Does somebody have run into this issue and solved it or can somebody point what I might be doing wrong?

Some info that might be useful:

• I'm using Visual Studio 2019 for Mac Version 8.3.3.8
• I Updated the NuGet for Newtonsoft.Json to 12.0.3 (Last stable at the time of this post)
• I'm Using Xamarin Forms Version 4.4.0.991477

By the way, this is my first post in the forum, I have been using Xamarin Forms for 8 months so far but this is the first time I needed to ask something so please let me know if I'm missing some guideline for posting or something in case I am.

Thanks 0/