Developing with Google+: Practical Guide to the Google+ Platform

by Jennifer Murphy

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781449312268
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/21/2012
Pages:	101
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Jennifer works in Developer Relations on social products at Google. Previously she has worked in a wide variety of software engineering roles from robotics at NASA to the architect of a social media startup. She is passionate about writing and education, especially on the subjects of technology and science.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Social Plugins
• Chapter 3: Public Data APIs
• Chapter 4: OAuth-Enabled APIs
• Chapter 5: Collaborative Baking with Hangout Apps
• Chapter 6: Wrapping Up the Baked Goods