Android Development Gotchas
I have just started developing for Android using the Eclipse IDE and there are a number of gotchas that I have encountered along the way. Here are a few. Installing the Android Tools The instructions for installing the Android tools…
Quick Demo: Back-filling moments to Google+ History
We talked about it briefly before, but it’s now possible to write moments in the past so that publishers can back-fill a user’s history with all the moments that they could have created. The following code shows an example payload…
Using the Google .NET client library with Google+
Overview IMPORTANT NOTE: This post covers old information on the client libraries. Please read this post for updated information. The first time you use Google+ and .NET, it can be a little tricky to…
Slow updates this week and upcoming talk next week
Just wanted to post something because I have been working pretty hard this week with Google+ history and using the API from .NET applications so things have been quiet – (it’s hard!). Also, a gentle reminder that next week I…
Google+ read API: activities and comments
In this post, I will look into how you can use the Google+ read API from JavaScript to retrieve activities and comments from a profile. I was interested in this because I believe it would be possible to make a…
Rendering schema.org microdata for content behind a paywall
One of the challenges with writing moments to a user’s Google+ history page is that you need a target URL to pass to the API and that target URL needs to contain appropriate microdata for Google+ to use for…
Building and running the OSCAR code
This will probably be the conclusive article for the OSCAR project. A few developers have had questions regarding building, installing, and running the app and the following general instructions should get you going.In short, you will get the code, set…
Short demo of OSCAR
We will be showcasing the robot this Friday, August 3rd, on Google Developers Live. Check the OSCAR event invite for any updates.
OSCAR, the hangout robot
A Robot in a Hangout I have been having fun recently playing around with hangouts and I thought it would be nifty to create a robot that can join and be controlled from within a hangout. Rather than wait for…
Rendering comments from Google+ related to a post (or URL!)
In my previous post on retrieving Google+ activity and comment data, I looked into aggregating comments from posts using the Google+ REST API. As useful as that is for specific posts, I was interested in pulling in “related” comments and…