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Since the public unveiling of the Google Drive SDK in April, companies like Lucidchart or HelloFax have built powerful, slick, useful Google Drive apps, and many more companies are launching compelling integrations every day. During this time, our developer community — especially on Stack Overflow — has grown substantially.

To help support our growing developer community and all the interest in integrating with Google Drive, we’re starting a series of Google Drive developer workshops. For the inaugural event, we are hosting several companies — including Shutterfly, Fedex, Autodesk, Twisted Wave, 1DollarScan and Manilla — to participate in a two-day workshop this week at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California.

During this workshop, Google engineers will be on hand to assist attendees with various parts of their Google Drive integration: things like design and implementation of features, authorization flow, and Android integration. Companies have shown that the Google Drive SDK allows for deep integration in just a couple days and we really hope that attendees of this workshop will enjoy a similar experience. Tune back in later this week to find out more about what we learned and accomplished in our workshop.

If you are interested in attending similar Google Drive workshops near you or if you want to contact the Google Drive team about a potential integration with your product, let us know.

Nicolas Garnier Google+ | Twitter Nicolas Garnier joined Google’s Developer Relations in 2008 and lives in Zurich. He is a Developer Advocate for Google Drive and Google Apps. Nicolas is also the lead engineer for the OAuth 2.0 Playground.

Users love Single Sign-On, but we’ve found the depth and quality of a Marketplace apps integration with Google Apps is a key factor in both the user experience and vendor success in the Marketplace. Deep integration makes users happy, because it helps them avoid entering duplicate data and makes useful information accessible from their day-to-day communication and collaboration tools.

To help you discover ways to integrate your own applications with Google Apps, we added a new section to our developer docs showcasing examples from popular applications in the marketplace. Some examples, like BatchBook’s streamlined sign-up process for users, show simple ways applications can help users get started quicker.


Apps can help users be more productive by displaying information and allowing them to take action right within an e-mail message. Harvest, a time tracking application, allows users to complete their timesheets in gmail when they receive their weekly reminders.


You’ll also find examples for collaboration and document sharing, such as Manymoon’s seamless integration with Google Docs. This makes it easy for users to share information with teams or attach relevant docs to tasks.


You can read more about these and other integrations, or try out the apps yourself by going to the Google Apps Marketplace. Of course these are just a few of many ways to make apps easier for users, and we look forward to seeing even more creative ideas from developers.

Posted by Steven Bazyl, Google Apps Marketplace Team

P.S. If you want to learn about the APIs which enable these deep integrations, meet with fellow developers and ask questions of Googlers, come to our Google Apps and Apps Marketplace Hackathon at the Google Mountain View campus on August 24th!