OpenSocial Tutorial – Part 1: Gadget Basics
Mar 3, 2009 API Tutorials
Attention! API Garbage (might be unreadable):
social account file
Social is the basic steps you or social obligations to first introduce dual primer on gadgets gadgets at the basic level are just XML files and surrendered a quick look at what an XML file looks like as you can see that they judge it is just XML of the top of the file you can see the XML version site and encoding and below that you can see the tags that specify this as a data file we open everything up with the module tag and insight that we have model preferences that specify things like the application s title and required features are necessary for the application you re requiring the open social future and below that we actually define the contents of the gadget here at the conference that does HTML inside that we have exceeded a section which were all barcode are issued on JavaScript go and the string hello world snuck a little entrance of the way we can go down to not run our first social obligation sues a couple things real need for this first a text editor and web hosting account and additions that you need in order account and access to the orchid sandbox which is where we alighted tester social applications I was in that most of you have a text editor that a lot of you probably are to have Web hosting but if you don t does two things you can try first is Google code Project hosting which is a place to host open source applications of you like to make your gadget open source and hosted there and if you don t want to do that you can use Google page Creator which allows you to upload HTML files and additional files and upload other non-additional files like gadget specifications that writing so what s it about awake during Tikrit orchid account which is pretty straightforward as the orchid.com will want to do steps want to deny me to sign up for access to the sandbox which is pretty straightforward as well with a link that you can use to do that and once you have access you can log into sandbox to orchid.com and either get frustrated and so what you should do if you should take the text of the sample gets copied into a text file and save it under Web hosting account is hello world.XML log into your account and on the edit button next apps on left and some of the page type in the URL of your newly created XML file click on the add application button at the application permission to access your account and then click on the link that adds to the applications and pitch tonight in soldier for social applications and orchid for more information on what I just did as well as more information on the rest of the social API check out the tutorial and code.google.com under the open social section
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