Google looking for a small set of developers committed to building apps for Google Drive
For those who unfamiliar,
Google Drive is an online app that allows you to backup, storage, and share your
files (video, song, text, and image). Its equivalent at Microsoft is Skydrive,
Mega at Mega, Dropbox at Dropbox.
Google announces that: ‘’Participants
will get early access to upcoming features and the opportunity to shape the
direction of the SDK. This is an ongoing program covering multiple aspects of
the API, and there are two new features that we're ready to share with
developers.’’
Google Drive Realtime API:
Some of you might have already
heard of the upcoming
Google Drive Realtime API at Google IO 2012. The Google Drive Realtime API will allow you to use the
technology that powers the realtime collaboration features of Google products
such as Google Docs and Google Sheets in your own application. It will handle
all aspects of data transmission, storage, and conflict resolution when
multiple users are editing.
We are looking for trusted
testers for what will be a short and intense pre-release phase of the Drive
Realtime API. Good candidates will be:
- People who are able to start testing and integrating the API very soon ( next week!)
- Web based applications: The API is currently JavaScript-only
- Those who have a good use case for a realtime technology (like web based editors or even web based games...)
- Committed to having their integration ready for the launch of the API
Google Drive API Push Notifications:
Push
Notifications will allow
you to get near-instant notifications when files are modified in Google Drive.
In the past you would typically have had to frequently poll the Drive API to
check if files have been modified to obtain similar results, Push notifications
aims to make this efficient.
You can now fill out a Google signup form to tell them more about your use case and they
will contact you shortly.
