Introduction to Google Drive API

The slides I used in my talk at the GDG Philippines Google Apps Challenge Meetup/Hackaton (July 6, 2012)

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1. Introduction to Google Drive API Google Apps Developer Challenge Workshop/Hackaton July 6-7, 2012 Jomar Tigcal GDG Philippines
2. Jomar Tigcal • Community Manager of GDG Philippines • Mobile Apps Developer (Software Engineer) at Stratpoint Technologies, Inc. http://jomar.tigcal.com +Jomar Tigcal @jomartigcal
3. What is Google Drive? • Create and collaborate. ◦ Google Docs (Documents, spreadsheets and presentations.) ◦ Share content, comments and receive notifications • Store everything safely and access it anywhere ◦ http://drive.google.com ◦ Drive Android App ◦ Mac and PC apps • Search ◦ Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
4. Google Drive API * Chrome Web Store The app must be installed from the Chrome Web Store to be able to access the APIs.
5. How Google Drive Apps Work • Install the app via Chrome Web Store
6. • Authorize access How Google Drive Apps Work
7. • Acessing files ◦ Files created by your app ◦ Files opened using your app • Create/open files from Google Drive • Open a file from your app How Google Drive Apps Work
8. • Opening a file in Google Drive How Google Drive Apps Work
9. • Creating a file from Google Drive How Google Drive Apps Work
10. • Opening a file from your app How Google Drive Apps Work
11. Developing Google Drive Apps
12. • Go to Google APIs console (http://code. google.com/apis/console) • Create an API Project • Select Services • Turn on Drive API and Drive SDK • Create OAuth 2.0 Client ID • Provide developer info, icon and other details Register the app
13. • Go to the Chrome Web Store Developer Dashboard (https://chrome.google. com/webstore/developer/dashboard) • Create a new listing • Modify the listing for Google Drive • Publish to TEST ACCOUNTS Create a Chrome Web Store Listing
14. Example URL: http://drive.jomartigcal.appspot.com Java Code: https://github.com/jomartigcal/google-drive-api- java-sample
15. Resources Documentation: https://developers.google.com/drive API Reference: https://developers.google. com/drive/v1/reference/ SDK Downloads: https://developers.google. com/drive/downloads
16. Resources Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/google- drive-sdk Support Page (Consumer/Developer) https://support.google.com/drive/? hl=en&p=web_home Google Apps Developer Blog: http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/
17. Questions?
18. Thank you very much!
19. Introduction to Google Drive API Google Apps Developer Challenge Workshop/Hackaton July 6-7, 2012 Jomar Tigcal GDG Philippines