I need to help in Add-on, i have no idea about add-on. First you will introduce add-on and then please show simple example to how to develop add-on in gmail?
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I am beginner to Mozilla Addons Development. I want to create add-on Mozilla Thunderbird desktop app. I researched how to create it but i found only browser extension.
Where should I start?
Thanks. I would be very thankful to you.
The documentation for add-ons development has been updated very recently, you can find it here:
https://developer.thunderbird.net/add-ons/about-add-ons
I'd suggest subscribing to this mailing list and announcing what you do, it's also a useful place to ask add-on development questions and make suggestions about it:
https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/tb-planning
I am trying to develop a contextual gadget, but not getting any documentation for it. Google provides a document which is very old and not updated from long time. Process explained in that documentation to develop a gadget is deprecated.
Please if anyone have solution, help me.
You may want to check full documentation in Gmail Contextual Gadgets which was last updated June 29, 2016.
To develop a Gmail Contextual Gadgets, you may want to first check the given implementation parts also discussed in the documentation. Then, you may go through these summary of steps:
Use JQuery, or write JavaScript that conforms to ECMAScript 5 Strict Mode.
Note: You need to be using the correct development frameworks to provide an extra layer of protection between your gadget's potential vulnerabilities and your end users. To find out why, see Using the right frameworks for security.
Choose one or more pre-canned extractors. This determines which type of content will trigger your gadget.
Write a manifest for the gadget.
Write the gadget spec. This determines what the gadget will do when it is triggered.
Publish the gadget spec to a location which is accessible on the public Internet. An intranet will not work. Your hard drive will not work. (Why? Google's servers need to download the gadget. If they can't reach it, then Gmail can't display it.)
Install the gadget.
Test the gadget by sending yourself some email. The gadget should appear in Gmail whenever you read an email that contains the right sort of content. For more tips on testing gadgets, see Publishing Your Gadget in the gadgets API site.
It will really help if you go through the documentation as there are best practices, limitations and important details that you should note.
This related SO post might also help.
I need some advice on how to start developing an add-on for a browser. I want to implement something into Youtube that accesses a user's profile in order to get to their playlists. I'm not looking for an add-on that helps to develop things, but to directly program an add-on itself, but I'm not sure where to get started. Any advice is appreciated, thanks!
Is it possible to create a custom Google Lab project? Or do Google Engineers have to create them? I'd like to integrate Gmail with another web application on a company web server.
If that is not possible, is there a way to import/export google mail in some format (ie: XML, HTML, etc..) for a specific gmail user or group of gmail users?
No.
You're looking for the IMAP protocol, which allows you to interact with Gmail messages.
No, it's not possible. Google Labs projects are Google's own experiments, not something you can add to yourself.
As Nadir Muzaffar said, maybe Gmail's API is what you're looking for: https://developers.google.com/gmail/
I'd like to add that you may create a browser extension.
You may start with experimenting with Developer toolbar (F12) and then pack your javascript to an extension.
If you use I.E. Chrome, see I.E. https://robots.thoughtbot.com/how-to-make-a-chrome-extension or try to look at your current extensions in order to understand how it's working ( ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions/ or ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions/ )
Note that if GMail changes, your extension may not work anymore.
I am trying to find out what the tech is like to create a Gmail plugin that accesses my attachments. Just to get started, what would be "Hello world" as a Gmail plugin? What would be the steps to create it?
Yes, you can creates plugin for Gmail, and two types:
Sidebar
Contextual
Look for Gadgets in gmail. After learning how to use these, you can add them to your gmail or anybody that wants to can do the same, to do so you can have Google host it.
It's easy if you know some HTML, JavaScript, and XML.
Good Luck
Take a look at these links:
https://developers.google.com/google-apps/gmail/contextual_gadgets
https://developers.google.com/gadgets/docs/basic
You cannot create Gmail plugins.
(Unless you work for Google)
Doing some quick research it looks like Google now supports a GMail api to build gadgets and/or plugins. I haven't done it myself, however it seems like they want it to work.
https://developers.google.com/google-apps/gmail/
I think you can do that. (You will find Hello World program too)
http://code.google.com/apis/gmail/gadgets/contextual/
Last year, Google released a GMail API and it allows you to perform the actions you want, but perhaps not with the UX you're looking for embedded directly inside of GMail. You can find it here:
https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/
Depending on exactly how you need it to work, you might be able to use either Contextual Gadgets (https://developers.google.com/gmail/contextual_gadgets) or a Google Chrome Extension to do what you need.
Google has recently introduced add-ons for Gmail (probably on Oct, 24 2017). It can be developed with Google Apps Script. Google's documentation says
What Gmail add-ons can do ?
Displaying additional information for the user in the Gmail UI.
Connecting to non-Google services, to retrieve information or take other actions.
Providing an interactive interface to allow the user to control the add-on or send information to another service.
I am not pretty sure (will go deep into it in coming days) whether you can deal with attachments. But I logically feel you can do that as well, because GAS supports handling attachments.
As of now, Google is not allowing to publish new add-ons however they will allow it in future.
While a few add-ons have been made available in the G Suite
Marketplace for users to install, it is not currently possible to
publish your own add-on to the Marketplace.
How can you publish your own add-on ?
As of now (26th Oct, 2017), they consider it on request basis. If you have a cool idea, fill this form to let them know about it. You will get notified once they accept your listing.
Here is how the add-on interface looks like inside Gmail
It is not possible to create plugins for Gmail. There is no developer API as such - only access to send/retrieve emails using standard SMTP/IMAP protocols.
See http://code.google.com/apis/gmail/oauth/