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Gmail Add-ons framework now available to all developers

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Originally posted by Wesley Chun, G Suite Developer Advocate on the G Suite Blog Email remains at the heart of how companies operate. That's why earlier this year, we previewed Gmail Add-ons—a way to help businesses speed up workflows. Since then, we've seen partners build awesome applications, and beginning today, we're extending the Gmail add-on preview to include all developers. Now anyone can start building a Gmail add-on. Gmail Add-ons let you integrate your app into Gmail and extend Gmail to handle quick actions. They are built using native UI context cards that can include simple text dialogs, images, links, buttons and forms. The add-on appears when relevant, and the user is just a click away from your app's rich and integrated functionality. Gmail Add-ons are easy to create. You only have to write code once for your add-on to work on both web and mobile, and you can choose from a rich palette of widgets to craft a custom UI. Create an add-on that contextually surfaces cards based on the content of a message. Check out this video to see how we created an add-on to collate email receipts and expedite expense reporting. Per the video, you can see that there are three components to the app's core functionality. The first component is getContextualAddOn()—this is the entry point for all Gmail Add-ons where data is compiled to build the card and render it within the Gmail UI. Since the add-on is processing expense reports from email receipts in your inbox, the createExpensesCard() parses the relevant data from the message and presents them in a form so your users can confirm or update values before submitting. Finally, submitForm()takes the data and writes a new row in an "expenses" spreadsheet in Google Sheets, which you can edit and tweak, and submit for approval to your boss. Check out the documentation to get started with Gmail Add-ons, or if you want to see what it's like to build an add-on, go to the codelab to build ExpenseIt step-by-step. While you can't publish your add-on just yet, you can fill out this form to get notified when publishing is opened. We can't wait to see what Gmail Add-ons you build!

Modifying events with the Google Calendar API

Thursday, June 29, 2017

Originally posted by Wesley Chun (@wescpy), Developer Advocate, G Suite, on the G Suite Developers Blog. You might be using the Google Calendar API, or alternatively email markup, to insert events into your users' calendars. Thankfully, these tools allow your apps to do this seamlessly and automatically, which saves your users a lot of time. But what happens if plans change? You need your apps to also be able to modify an event. While email markup does support this update, it's limited in what it can do, so in today's video, we'll show you how to modify events with the Calendar API. We'll also show you how to create repeating events. Check it out: Imagine a potential customer being interested in your product, so you set up one or two meetings with them. As their interest grows, they request regularly-scheduled syncs as your product makes their short list—your CRM should be able to make these adjustments in your calendar without much work on your part. Similarly, a "dinner with friends" event can go from a "rain check" to a bi-monthly dining experience with friends you've grown closer to. Both of these events can be updated with a JSON request payload like what you see below to adjust the date and make it repeating: var TIMEZONE = "America/Los_Angeles"; var EVENT = { "start": {"dateTime": "2017-07-01T19:00:00", "timeZone": TIMEZONE}, "end": {"dateTime": "2017-07-01T22:00:00", "timeZone": TIMEZONE}, "recurrence": ["RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=2;UNTIL=20171231"] }; This event can then be updated with a single call to the Calendar API's events().patch() method, which in Python would look like the following given the request data above, GCAL as the API service endpoint, and a valid EVENT_ID to update: GCAL.events().patch(calendarId='primary', eventId=EVENT_ID, sendNotifications=True, body=EVENT).execute() If you want to dive deeper into the code sample, check out this blog post. Also, if you missed it, check out this video that shows how you can insert events into Google Calendar as well as the official API documentation. Finally, if you have a Google Apps Script app, you can access Google Calendar programmatically with its Calendar service. We hope you can use this information to enhance your apps to give your users an even better and timely experience.

Introducing the Google Sheets API v4: Transferring data from a SQL database to a Sheet

Thursday, June 16, 2016

Posted by Wesley Chun (@wescpy), Developer Advocate, Google Apps

At Google I/O 2016, we launched a new Google Sheets API—click here to watch the entire announcement. The updated API includes many new features that weren’t available in previous versions, including access to functionality found in the Sheets desktop and mobile user interfaces. My latest DevByte video shows developers how to get data into and out of a Google Sheet programmatically, walking through a simple script that reads rows out of a relational database and transferring the data to a brand new Google Sheet.Let’s take a sneak peek of the code covered in the video. Assuming that SHEETS has been established as the API service endpoint, SHEET_ID is the ID of the Sheet to write to, and data is an array with all the database rows, this is the only call developers need to make to write that raw data into the Sheet:SHEETS.spreadsheets().values().update(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range='A1', body=data, valueInputOption='RAW').execute()SHEETSSHEET_IDrows = SHEETS.spreadsheets().values().get(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range='Sheet1').execute().get('values', []) for row in rows: print(row) If you’re ready to get started, take a look at the Python or other quickstarts in a variety of languages before checking out the DevByte. If you want a deeper dive into the code covered in the video, check out the post at my Python blog. Once you get going with the API, one of the challenges developers face is in constructing the JSON payload to send in API calls—the common operations samples can really help you with this. Finally, if you’re ready to get going with a meatier example, check out our JavaScript codelab where you’ll write a sample Node.js app that manages customer orders for a toy company, the database of which is used in this DevByte, preparing you for the codelab. We hope all these resources help developers create amazing applications and awesome tools with the new Google Sheets API! Please subscribe to our channel, give us your feedback below, and tell us what topics you would like to see in future episodes!

Introducing a New Video Series: Compressor Head

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

By Colt McAnlis, Google Developer Advocate Compressor Head, Episode 1 (Variable Length Codes)Compressor Head, Episode 2 (The LZ Compression Family)Compressor Head, Episode 3 (Markov Chain Compression) Google Developers YouTube channelhttp://g.co/compressorheadColt McAnlis is a games developer advocate who believes every bit counts and that performance matters. He is a Udacity course instructor on HTML5 games and a Book Author. When he's not working with developers, Colt’s been known to compress games, buildings and mountains with his bare hands.Posted by Louis Gray, Googler

Google I/O Interactive Map: Now with videos + some Open Source goodness!

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Interactive Conference MapGoogle MapsJavaScript Maps APII/O session videos and presentationsvideos of sessions that took place in Room 1here's where the keynote sessions took placewhere we filmed interviews with I/O sandbox developers

open sourced the interactive conference maphow to article outlining the steps I went throughopen source projectBy Roman Nurik, Developer Programs Engineer

Nicholas C. Zakas: Speed Up Your JavaScript

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

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Scope ManagementwithvarData Access:Loops:lengthDOM:HTML speclive
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divsreflow DocumentFragmentclassNameBy Steve Souders, Performance Evangelist

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John Resig: Drop-in JavaScript Performance

Doug Crockford: JavaScript: The Good Parts

Steve Souders: Life's Too Short, Write Fast Code (part 2)

PPK: The Open Web Goes Mobile

Rob Campbell: Debugging and Testing the Web with Firebug

The Developer Sandbox, now with Video Interviews!

Friday, June 5, 2009

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Click hereFriend ConnectBy Neel Kshetramade, Google Developer Programs

Tech Talk Videos from Google I/O

Friday, June 5, 2009

Tech Talk sessionsbuild faster, high-performing websitesrevealed the fast, lightweight Guice frameworksessionunveiled the architectureMercurial on BigTableProject Hosting on Google CodemythsessionIgnite session at Google I/Onine speakers

Update:portrait sketchesnow availablenext weekBy Min Li Chan, Google Developer Products

Previews of I/O Sessions: Brad Chen, Sven Mawson and Ben Lisbakken

Friday, May 8, 2009

previous set of previewssessionsGoogle I/OBrad Chen - Native Client: Using Native Code to Build Compute Intensive Web Applications

Sven Mawson - Evolution of the Google Data Protocol: New Features for Building more Efficient Applications

Ben Lisbakken - Fun Hacks and Cool JavaScript: The Advanced Techniques Behind the Google AJAX API Playground

By Neel Kshetramade, Google Developer Programs

Rob Campbell: Debugging and Testing the Web with Firebug

Friday, May 8, 2009

Web E^xponentslast JulyFirebug Working Groupvideoslides

Firebug 1.4 alphaFirebug Extensions

Firediff - tracker for changes made to DOM and CSS

FireCookie - cookie manager

FirePHP - console logging from PHP

YSlow - performance tips

FireRainbow - JavaScript syntax highlighting

Rob's blogFirebugBy Steve Souders, Performance Evangelist

Web Exponents

Monday, May 4, 2009

John ResigDoug CrockfordPPKIWeb E^xponentsWeb Exponents playlistxplaylistWeb E^xponents - raising web technology to a higher power.By Steve Souders, Performance Evangelist

PPK: The Open Web Goes Mobile

Thursday, April 30, 2009

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top level: Android WebKit, Safari, Opera Mobile

mid level: S60 WebKit, Blackberry, Opera Mini

bottom level: NetFront, IE Mobile

W3C WidgetsBy Steve Souders, Performance Evangelist

Code Conversations Episode 2 - Kevin Marks with Brad Neuberg

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

By Neel Kshetramade, Google Developer ProgramsPart 1Part 2Douglas Adams

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Now playing: developer-created videos

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

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New! Caption files for Google Developer Videos

Thursday, February 5, 2009

by Naomi Bilodeau, Google Code TeamCaptions and Subtitles featurea new playlist for captioned Developer Videosan Open Source project to host caption filesCreative Commons 3.0 BYRESTful protocol YouTubeKevin Marks' captioned English accenta few of our captioned videoscan perform Auto-TranslateGoogle Translate

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Google Web Toolkit out in the wild

Thursday, December 11, 2008

By Christine Tsai, Google Developer ProductsGoogle Web Toolkit (GWT)Who's Using GWTOfficial Google Web Toolkit Blog*Viewing tip: While we've embedded the videos here, we highly recommend watching them directly on YouTube and choosing the "watch in HD" option.GoGridBest In Show

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YouTube <3's Developers

Thursday, December 11, 2008

By Stephanie Liu, YouTube APIs and Tools Team

Backwards compatibility guidelinesV2 of the API"Mandate For Change"Test your apps against new buildsstage.gdata.youtube.comannouncement forumstage.gdata.youtube.com"All the World's a Stage"Interactive query generatortool"Try Before You Buy"YouTube App Gallerygallerysubmit your ownherediscussion forum

YouTube APIs for developers and for... iguana enthusiasts

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

By Stephanie Liu, YouTube APIs and Tools Team YouTube Data APIYouTube API blogwatch our engineersdocsforum

Google Developer Courses on YouTube

Thursday, January 3, 2008

By Stephanie Liu, Google Developer ProgramsGoogle DevelopersGetting Started with Gadgets

An Introduction to Google Data

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Sigurd Magnusson of SilverStripe on open source and the Summer of Code

Monday, October 15, 2007

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Gmail Add-ons framework now available to all developers

Modifying events with the Google Calendar API

Introducing the Google Sheets API v4: Transferring data from a SQL database to a Sheet

Introducing a New Video Series: Compressor Head

Google I/O Interactive Map: Now with videos + some Open Source goodness!

Nicholas C. Zakas: Speed Up Your JavaScript

The Developer Sandbox, now with Video Interviews!

Tech Talk Videos from Google I/O

Previews of I/O Sessions: Brad Chen, Sven Mawson and Ben Lisbakken

Rob Campbell: Debugging and Testing the Web with Firebug

Web Exponents

PPK: The Open Web Goes Mobile

Code Conversations Episode 2 - Kevin Marks with Brad Neuberg

Now playing: developer-created videos

New! Caption files for Google Developer Videos

Google Web Toolkit out in the wild

YouTube <3's Developers

YouTube APIs for developers and for... iguana enthusiasts

Google Developer Courses on YouTube

Sigurd Magnusson of SilverStripe on open source and the Summer of Code

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