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….
PhotoHunt: An example of social graph integration
If you are unfamiliar with the PhotoHunt application, you can read the Java server overview here and can download the app from the Google+ GitHub page. I’m going to share some ideas in this post that have been coming up…
Selectively rendering interactive posts
In some rare cases, it makes sense to render interactive posts selectively, falling back to the share button. For example, you might want to do this when your uses could be fickel enough to drop off when prompted to sign…
My thoughts on Google+ Sign-In
Before continuing, I want to remind you, dear reader, that this blog represents my personal opinions and is not the official word from Google. With that out of the way, let’s talk about Google+ Sign-In. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is…
Google+ platform launch roundup
Whew! What a week! Google+ sign-in has been an exciting launch so far and we’re just getting started! If you’re new to the Google+ platform launch, you can learn more from the Google+ developers blog, Introducing Google+ Sign-in : simple…
Google+ Sign-in Launches: Key Resources
I won’t say too much about this now because I’m going to be heads down for the rest of the day with various launch-related tasks… but Google+ Sign-in has launched. We have tons of new documentation on the Google+ developers…
Handling events for +1
A feature that I haven’t really talked about yet, events on +1 buttons, is interesting because it enables so many exciting scenarios for developers interested in doing something when their users click the +1 button and so on. A high…
Switching to pure HTML for Google+ badge, +1, and Share
As you may have noticed, Google+ has been pushing to an updated approach to rendering the +1 and share buttons. I for one have been a guilty party and have needed to update my +1 and share links on my…
A tale of two RESTful API queries…
At the suggestion of +Will Norris, I updated this demo code for translating URLs to activity IDs to now use a filter. The following code highlights the differences: < + '/activities/public?fields=items%2Fid%2Citems%2Furl&key=' + key — > + '/activities/public?key=' + key The…
Getting an activity ID from a Google+ Post URL
Taking the URL to a post and then determining the post ID for additional API calls is a little tricky but also fundamental for the Google+ public data API. First, you have to list activities and then search through them…