Google+ and the Google+ Platform

Jomar TigcalNovember 5, 2012

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.comjomar@tigcal.com

@jomartigcal

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

Google+ Features

● Circles● Hangouts● Messenger● Instant Upload● Google+ Pages● Google+ Events● and more... (http://www.google.

com/+/learnmore/)

Google+ Platform

● Websites (Plugins)○ +1 button○ Share on Google+ button○ Google+ badge○ Snippet

● Mobile○ Android○ iOS

● Google+ REST API

● Hangouts API

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.

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/

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

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.

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.

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.

Hangouts API

Allows you to develop collaborative apps that run inside of a Google+ Hangout

https://developers.google.com/+/hangouts

Resources

● Documentation:https://developers.google.com/+/

● Google APIs Console: https://code.google.com/apis/console

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

Questions?

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Thank you very much!

Google+ and the Google+ Platform

Jomar TigcalNovember 5, 2012