Developing with Google+
Practical Guide to the Google+ Platform
Published on 10. September 2012
104 pages
978-1-4493-5715-3 (ISBN)
Description
Would you like to integrate Google+ with an existing website, or build your own social application on the platform? Developing with Google+ takes you on a tour of the Google+ APIs, with lots of concrete examples and hands-on projects. Youll learn how to take advantage of Google+ social plug-ins, communicate programmatically with Google+ over REST APIs, and author real-time Hangout Apps.Over the course of this book, youll follow the progress of a fictional company, Baking Disasters, as it incorporates all the features of the Google+ platform.Make the most of social widgets such as the +1 button, Badge, and the Share buttonUse performance tuning techniques to speed up social plugins on your siteCreate your own plugins by accessing public data APIs with RESTful web servicesTransform an blog into a social web application through server-side processingUse OAuth to authenticate users and authorize your access to their private dataExtend Google+ Hangouts programmatically and create your own application
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Content
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Using Code Examples
- Safari® Books Online
- How to Contact Us
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Things You May Recognize
- Things That May Be New to You
- Explore the API
- Chapter 2. Social Plugins
- The +1 Button
- Adding the +1 Button
- Customizing the +1 Button
- Customizing Your Snippet
- Leveraging the Callback
- Special Considerations for AJAX Applications
- Troubleshooting the +1 Button
- The Badge
- Adding the Badge
- Performance Tuning Social Plugins
- Asynchronous Loading
- Explicit Rendering
- Delayed Rendering
- Keeping Up to Date
- Chapter 3. Public Data APIs
- Integrating Google+ Comments
- Experiment with the APIs
- Client Libraries
- Registering Your Application
- Time to Code
- Comments Integration in Action
- What's Next?
- Chapter 4. OAuth-Enabled APIs
- New Application: Baking Disasters 2.0
- Authentication Using Google+
- OAuth 2.0
- Accounts and API Keys
- A Little More About OAuth 2.0
- Starter Projects
- Bringing it Together
- Locking Stuff Down
- A Preview of the Sign-in Button
- Making Baking Disasters Social
- Import Disasters from Google+
- A Preview of the History API
- Best Practices
- Chapter 5. Collaborative Baking with Hangout Apps
- Potluck Party Planner
- Architecture of a Hangout App
- Hosting a Hangout App
- Starting with a Starter Project
- Convert the Starter Project to PHP
- Run the Starter Project
- Collaborative Planning
- Recipe and Ingredient REST APIs
- Hangout App Interface
- Hangout App Startup
- Shared State and HTML Manipulations
- Add Reminder Sharing
- Media APIs
- Other Hangout APIs
- Publishing
- Chapter 6. Wrapping Up the Baked Goods
