I've recently noticed that Google has replaced the Google Talk application with Google Hangouts. I was wondering if there were any APIs available for Google Hangouts? I've searched online but it kind of got confusing because there is also a hangout feature within Google+.
Google+ Hangouts is really Google Hangouts.
Have a look at the official documentation here: https://developers.google.com/+/hangouts/
Google is trying to combine a lot of their products together, so you'll be able to use a lot of features throughout different applications.
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I'm developing an Android app where users must be able to authenticate and then make calls to the YouTube Data API.
I have no problems authenticating the users with their main account, using Google Sign-In everything is easy and user friendly, both for me and the users.
The problem is that some Google services (eg Google+ and YouTube) allow a single Google account to have multiple related accounts (linked accounts) (eg multiple Google+ pages or multiple YouTube channels).
Unfortunately seems that Google Sign-In doesn't consider this use case. Every user is forced to log into their main account.
In my scenario this is a serious problem. It means that some users won't be able to log into their secondary YouTube channels.
The only solution I have so far is to use the web-based authentication process. But this is obviously worst in terms of user experience and also means that I must handle everything by myself, with a WebView-based solution.
I've already built a small library that does everything, but Google recommends to use the provided Client libraries for a lot of good reasons. The problem is that all their client libraries have the same problem in Android. (The Google API Client Library for Java relies on the AccountManager for Android, therefore has the same problem of Google Sign-In)
Does anyone know if I'm missing something? is there a native way to authenticate the user secondary accounts? or am I forced to use the web-based authentication?
The same problem was addressed in a 3 years old YouTube blog post, is it possible that there's no solution yet?
Apparently at the moment there is no other way to solve this problem.
Here is the link to the library I'm building, in case someone else will have the same issue. https://github.com/PierfrancescoSoffritti/GoogleWebOAuth
Hopefully Google will solve the issue in the future.
Google Sign-in has similar limitations on iOS, but there's an alternative library,
Google's GTMAppAuth, that can be used instead. AppAuth looks like the parallel library for Android – would that satisfy this use case?
This SO question has some more iOS-specific info.
I think I am a little confused with using the Google Play Android Developer API.
I have an Android App, built with Parse, that uses Google In-App Subscriptions.
I found the answer here, which is great. But, where do I actually access the API to confirm the subscription from? Do i do it from within my App?? From Parse Cloud Code?
Any ideas?
I would like to make an app that pushes Google Now cards to the Pebble SmartWatch. Is there a way to access Google Now cards programmatically? I'm guessing from my googling that it's not officially supported, but have people found out any undocumented APIs that access this information?
AFAIK there are no official or unofficial APIs as of now to retrieve the Google Now cards, and there are unlikely to be as it is a proprietary app by Google that gives them a competitive advantage, and not part of the AOSP Android.
My Problem is, that I want to use any SDK or API to access my google drive from my android phone without using an existing google drive app on my android phone.
I read the instructions on this side: google drive sdk
The code examples does only work for desktop applications and the "integrate with Android" topic on the side does not provide any example how I can access my google drive from my android application.
I already read android-api-for-google-drive here but this leads only to more links and how-to's which are far to complicated and fuzzy.
Has anyone experience with connecting to google-drive from an android application and could help with any example code or "clean-and-short-explained" tutorial?
Luckily, just after you asked this question, Google released their Play Services (see this link), which makes it a heck of a lot easier to access files using the Drive SDK & Drive API. Please see my post on Google Plus that gives a step-by-step walkthrough and code example on how to integrate an Android app with Google Drive documents: https://plus.google.com/u/0/114042449736049687152/posts/CD3L8zcJg5Z
In the tutorial, I reference a particular Google IO 2012 talk (slides at https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LrEKp2PqESsES3upS1xsSARz35KS-9QHnYFTKvS2yzM/preview#slide=id.p19), but please read my G+ post because I go through the various flaws, pitfalls, and omitted details from this presentation.
Before you start coding anything, get yourself signed up for the Google APIs (see this link), get into the API Console, and turn on both the Google Drive API and Drive SDK.
Good luck & have fun!
Is there any way to integrate google+ with my app. So that from my app, I can
Read the posts
Post something on my wall
Access different circles
At least post something
Did google provide any Api or SDK for this?
The API has now been announced at: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/09/getting-started-on-google-api.html and the official homepage is: http://developers.google.com/+/
As of 29/07/2011, Google has not provided an SDK yet.
The only thing you can do for now is add a 'plus' button like the 'like' button from facebook in your webpages using javascript - look here.
EDIT:
As #ade said, the API has now been announced. so my answer is no loner relevant.
We definitely plan to involve developers and publishers in the Google+ project, but we don’t have specific details to share just yet. Please stay tuned and sign up to receive more information about Google+ developer opportunities. https://services.google.com/fb/forms/plusdevelopers/
You can only read posts using the newly announced Google plus API but you cannot share or access different circles.
More functionality is yet to be added to the Google plus API.
In order to effectively use the new Google plus API you need to authenticate the new user, so that you can serve large number of people or else you will run out of the API calls which are restricted to 1000 per day.