Google+ and the Google+ Platform

The slides I used in my talk at the GDG DevFest Cebu on November 7, 2012

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1. Google+ and the Google+ Platform Jomar Tigcal November 5, 2012
2. Jomar Tigcal • Community Manager of GDG Philippines • Mobile Apps Developer • Software Engineer at Stratpoint Technologies, Inc. • One of the developers of Moochfood http://jomar.tigcal.com jomar@tigcal.com @jomartigcal
4. Google+ Google+ aims to make sharing on the web more like sharing in real life. It is a social layer integrating various Google products. plus.google.com
5. Google+ Features • Circles • Hangouts • Messenger • Instant Upload • Google+ Pages • Google+ Events • and more... (http://www.google. com/+/learnmore/)
6. Google+ Platform • Websites (Plugins) ◦ +1 button ◦ Share on Google+ button ◦ Google+ badge ◦ Snippet • Mobile ◦ Android ◦ iOS • Google+ REST API • Hangouts API
7. Google+ Platform for Android Integrate your Android app with Google+ Google+ SDK Platform components: • Sign-in button - Enable users to sign in with Google+ • Share dialog - Let users share content from your app to Google+. • +1 button - Enable users to +1 from within your app.
8. Google+ API • Used to integrate your app or website with Google+ • RESTful API • Read-only access to public data (for now) • https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/
9. Google+ API • People - People is a list of person resources, each of which represents a Google+ user • Activities - Note that a user posts to their stream • Comments - A reply to an activity
10. People A person has a name, photo image, profile URL, and other properties that make up the profile Methods: • get - Get a person's profile. • search - Search all public profiles. • listByActivity - List all of the people in the specified collection for a particular activity.
11. Activities An activity has an actor, verb and object, where the default verb is "post" and default objectType is "note". The note's text is specified in content, and its photo, video or location are specified in the attachments array. Methods: • list - List all of the activities in the specified collection for a particular user. • get - Get an activity. • search - Search public activities.
12. Comments A comment has an actor who posted the comment, text content of the comment, when the comment was created and last updated, and other properties. Methods: • list - List all of the comments for an activity • get - Get a comment.
13. Hangouts API Allows you to develop collaborative apps that run inside of a Google+ Hangout https://developers.google.com/+/hangouts
14. Resources • Documentation: https://developers.google.com/+/ • Google APIs Console: https://code.google.com/apis/console
15. Community/Support • https://developers.google.com/+/office-hours • http://googleplusplatform.blogspot.com/ • https://plus.google. com/+GooglePlusDevelopers/posts • https://developers.google.com/+/discussions • http://stackoverflow. com/questions/tagged/google-plus
16. Questions? Image Source: http://www.smoblog.com/
17. Thank you very much!
18. Google+ and the Google+ Platform Jomar Tigcal November 5, 2012