Sign in Best Practices: Reflecting the User
In the recent Google+ Developers Live episode: Google+ Sign-In Best Practices: Greeting the user and reflecting the profile, I showed you a few tweaks that you can make to your site’s experience to make it more engaging. This blog post…
Passive Sharing: Writing app activities without target URLs
It is a best practice to target your shares to target pages containing Schema content but sometimes you cannot do this. For example, if you are referencing content that is not on your site or if you are writing app…
Google API clients: Why you should use them and how
Some of our older code examples, including many that I have authored on my blog have been using raw query execution against the Google APIs. This is undesirable and is absolutely not a best practice because you will not benefit…
Using the one-time-code flow with Google+ Sign-in
OAuth v2 background In this post, I’m going to assume that you understand a little bit about the traditional OAuth v2 flows for authorization. If you haven’t already checked it out, you can get acclimated hands-on through the OAuth2 playground….