Book 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. You’ll 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, you’ll 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 button
- Use performance tuning techniques to speed up social plugins on your site
- Create your own plugins by accessing public data APIs with RESTful web services
- Transform an blog into a social web application through server-side processing
- Use OAuth to authenticate users and authorize your access to their private data
- Extend Google+ Hangouts programmatically and create your own application
Table of contents
- Developing with Google+
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- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Social Plugins
- 3. Public Data APIs
- 4. OAuth-Enabled APIs
- 5. Collaborative Baking with Hangout Apps
- 6. Wrapping Up the Baked Goods
- About the Author
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- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Developing with Google+
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2012
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449357146
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