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.
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I'd like to automatize some processes that are not yet available through API(Google Classroom), like posting comments on announcements, seeing private comments on my work and so on. I have trouble accessing my account. I'd like the app to be able to run on a server. I'm currently working with node.js, but if there is an easier approach I'll gladly accept it (free if it's possible). Can you give me an example of how it's done because currently, I am struggling to find every button that needs to be clicked on?
Unfortunately, there are no methods right now to accomplish that. You can leave a feature request on Google Issue Tracker describing what methods you would like to use. Google engineers will study your case and, if applicable, they will develop the requested methods.
You could use something like Selenium with your language of choice (Javascript in this case) to automate the browser clicks.
This is however, not the best of ideas... To make Selenium log into your account you will need to hardcode your password somewhere.
Google services use Oauth for authentication, take a look at the Classroom API Getting-started for instructions on how to work with Google Classroom API.
I know it's deprecated and all (or I think it is), but I just want to do some tinkering, and the source code I have requires this library. According to the project's GitHub website (https://github.com/Equalify/Miniplayer), you have to ask for this library.
I'm a Premium Spotify user.
How can I get this library?
Thanks.
You should already have received the library via mail.
When i githubbed the miniplayer project the library was still very much work in progress - and it still is - which is why i did not want to include it.
It would not be good for me to provide the public with a possibly buggy/crashing library, so i opted for the "contact me to get it" approach where there will be a direct line of communication between me and the people that has the library.
For anyone else, the contact info is on the github page and in the library header file.
I need to use Yandex Maps in an app instead of Here Maps. Could this be possible? Any hints or tricks to help me?
Thanks
Basically the rules of using APIs is very simple. If the API is not requiring any parts that are not available in the platform, then it works.
Thus if the API is using parts that are supported in AOSP 4.1.2 API level 16, and using any Google services, then it is likely to work just fine.
And you can always check the compatibility with free online tools very easily. First go to Online Analyser drag and drop the APK there, and let the tool check the compatibility issues.
Then you can also use a real device for testing, just visit Remote Device Access, and reserve a device for testing your app.
Both steps should onlky take you couple of minutes to complete.
For Yandex maps, you would need to visit their developer site to see how the maps API can be used, and what restrictions they would pose on utilizing the API.
I would like to get into Plugin development using the Gmail API and as such I would like to ask those who already have experience in it a few questions.
What language / languages should I be familiar with? I'm not familiar with Python, PHP, or JavaScript. Will I need to pick up on these?
What level of control do I have on what my plugin can do? Can I for example change the interface or add shortcuts or RSS feeds as a sidebar?
I know a lot of the examples mentioned already exist but I would like to try my own hand at it.
Peter posted a solid list of the official Gmail APIs.
On the other hand, most of the major plugins that you may have heard about are browser plugins that just modify the page source directly, even though there's no official API for it. There used to be a GreaseMonkey API that was a good starting point, but that wasn't supported and no longer works. Best place to start is with a copy of Chrome, creating a content-injection plugin that works on the Gmail page.
Happy to provide some further details if you can clarify what you're going for since I went through this myself a few months back.
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/