I have just re-written the authentication for one of our internal web applications to rely on Google Apps federated login with OpenID and it works nicely. However, to be a totally perfect solution, I wonder if it is possible to add the internal application to the More link on Google Apps top bar where you would see Google Apps marketplace applications listed?
I thought perhaps the only way to do this would be to deploy on App Engine?
You can create a listing in the Google Apps market place. You do not have to make your listing public, you can keep it private for use within your company and still deploy it onto your GAPPS for Business.
When deploying in the marketplace, you have to provide a manifest file, which defines the 'More link'. Google calls this the Universal navigation.
Basically, something like this is needed in the manifest :
<!-- Show this link in Google's universal navigation for all users -->
<Extension id="navLink" type="link">
<Name>AppTest</Name>
<Url>http://www.example.com/home.php?from=google&domain=${DOMAIN_NAME}</Url>
<!-- This app also uses the Calendar API -->
<Scope ref="calendarFeed"/>
</Extension>
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I have a html5 application, called Portal that holds a collection of tiles that simply link to other apps when pressed. I created a custom domain for the portal app. So now when I call https://example.org it shows the portal app.
What I want to do is to show other apps by calling https://example.org/{app_name}. For example http://example.org/records should show the records app. I tried to accomplish this using Destinations, but without any luck. Do you have any idea on how to do this?
If you have SAP Cloud Platform Portal or onPrem NW GW Fiori Launchpad you could use app-to-app-navigation with semantic objects:
Cloud: https://help.sap.com/viewer/3ca6847da92847d79b27753d690ac5d5/Cloud/en-US/1a51a606964141579d14079455ac03b8.html
OnPrem: https://blogs.sap.com/2017/06/23/cross-app-navigation-in-sap-fiori-launchpad/
OnPrem with Web IDE: https://blogs.sap.com/2015/02/19/app-to-app-navigation-in-the-web-ide-fiori-launchpad-sandbox/
If you have a custom Portal, it depends where your apps are deployed. You might need a dns entry solving https://example.org/{app_name} to the real url where the app is available.
I built a native Windows app (non Windows-Store) that uses the Facebook API.
I wanted to make it public which means going through their review process which means (among other things) selecting the app's platform.
Sadly a native Windows app is not one of the choices: Facebook app platform selection screenshot
I found 2 unanswered questions on SO on the same topic:
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How should this be done in a proper way?
Thanks in advance.
PS:
I found a post a few days ago where the poster said he registered such an app by setting the platform to "web site" (I didn't keep the link).
This does not look like a good long term solution and also I don't have a domain to provide.
In short, you must set your platform to Web.
The reason for this can be found in the official documentation on building your native logon flow. There is no secure way of creating a logon flow without a server, as this would imply storing your App Secret inside your binary or app config file.
So the recommended (and only supported) way is to create a server which stores the App Secret and handles authentication for you. And use this server from the WebBrowser/WebView control which you embed into your native application.
This means you use the logon flow from a web browser via a custom server and you should have a domain for it (a domain is quite cheap nowdays, it should not be a problem). So you are building a web app embedded into a native app.
For a successful login review do the following:
Choose Web as your platform
On the Settings page in the Advanced tab choose Native App.
Create a screencast (Start your app, logon, use all the requested permissions and that's it. Do not edit it!) and upload it to the web (YouTube/Vimeo/...)
When submitting provide a link to your screencast.
I have a Google API console premier account, and I'm using the places service for an application that has two parts, web app and mobile app.
It seems that Google API distinguishes between server and browser apps. So for each category I have to generate keys specifically for it.
The mobile app is a native iPhone App, that uses the Google Places Web Services XML API for a simple auto complete function.
The question is in which category does mobile apps fall in?
Browser Apps
Server Apps
And any resources of how to use them?, does the Google JavaScript API V3 still requires an API Key for the premium users? Google documentation about this subject does not have enough information.
There are two different interactive types of Mobile Apps that use Google Maps:
ones that use the Maps Javascript API v3 (either directly or embedded in a Native Application)
ones that use Native Google Maps APIs (currently available for Android and iPhone)
For more on that you can have a look at:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/mobile_overview_v3.html
Ones that use the Maps JS v3 are Browser Apps, the Native Apps are neither. They have their own TOS and quota system, like the one for iPhone and the one for Android.
About Google Maps JS API v3. It an be loaded :
without any key
with an API console key, which will allow you to track your usage (this was introduced recently)
with Maps Premier client id (gme-) if you are a Maps API Premier customer
The XML web service for places API should be used only as a server side solution. This is because you can imagine that a user might steal your key from the source of your iPhone app (by sniffing on the traffic) and use it.
The safe way out is to use a proxy server. You would then register an App Key for server apps (with IP locking for your proxy server) and then make calls to the Places API from this proxy.
Another option would be to use UIWebView on the iPhone side with JS Maps API v3 and Places library on the Google side. You would then fall in "ones that use the Maps Javascript API v3 in a Native Application" category.
You could then use any of the 3 options to load JS Maps API that are mentioned above.
I had to cut away some links, since I am not able to paste more than two, but I hope that helps anyway
Unless you have strong reasons against it, the "ones that use the Maps Javascript API v3 in a Native Application" category is the best option. There's a nice talk from Google I/O 2010 about it: http://www.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/map-once-map-anywhere-geospatial-apps.html
Is there a way to take a existing web application and make it available as a Facebook application or in Google Marketplace without doing recoding. How much effort would that require (10% or 90% of original effort).
What would be the pre-requisites around that within application.
If your application don't use any sort of authentication, you can just link it on Facebook's dev dashboard (as iframe) and it'll work. My guess is that Facebook won't allow any other kind of authentication besides their own, so if your app uses authentication, then you're going to have to implement Facebook's authentication.
With Google Marketplace you'll need a manifest for your app and also a listing manifest. And the authentication thing also applies, but with Google's.
I have developed a management tool web site using ASP .NET.
Currently users register in the site to use the service. I would like to move it to Google Apps Marketplace. So that it would be available to google users.
I am quite confused what i should be doing to achieve this. Can anyone provide some useful links explaining how to do it.
If you are looking for a way for google users to login in your app by their google usernames, use the google oauth api
and here's the link to become a vendor on the google apps marketplace: