Setting Up GAE

Before we dive into our Glassware, we’ll need to set up a Google App Engine application. Happily, any Google account, such as Gmail, can be used to create one.

  1. Visit https://appengine.google.com and click Create Application. If this is your first application, you’ll have to verify your account.

  2. Enter a unique Application Identifier (app ID), that will be your subdomain at GAE’s ‘appspot.com‘ domain—for example, ‘glassbooktest‘.

  3. We’ll be building an application called Lunch Roulette, so enter that in the Application Title field, as you see in the following figure.

  4. Select Open to All Google Accounts Users under Authentication Options. This will allow any Glass user to try out your application.

  5. Select High Replication under Storage ...

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