Google Apps Developers Blog
googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com · Company blog · on HN since 2010
Google's official developer blog for Google Apps, announcing APIs and features for Gmail, Drive, and Apps Script.
What HN saysHN links it for primary announcements such as the Gmail API and Drive file picker, and for Apps Script tutorials like Gmail Snooze.
47HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1Announcing Google Drive Site Publishing4 people · 72 points · first shared 2012 · 18 comments on HN
- 2Gmail Snooze with Apps Script3 people · 50 points · first shared 2011 · 13 comments on HN
- 3Gmail: Introducing Actions in the Inbox2 people · 260 points · first shared 2013 · 137 comments on HN
- 4Gmail will now support CSS media queries2 people · 236 points · first shared 2016 · 67 comments on HN
- 5Introducing new gmail api2 people · first shared 2014
- 6Building UI in Google Apps Script just got a whole lot easier1 people · 67 points · first shared 2011 · 14 comments on HN
- 7Google Apps Dev Blog: Upload all file types to any Google Account1 people · 48 points · first shared 2011 · 13 comments on HN
- 8Google Hackathon winners: Wolfram Alpha & Minesweeper right in your spreadsheet1 people · 14 points · first shared 2012 · 4 comments on HN
- 9Building SaaSy Voice, a test application for the Apps Marketplace1 people · 14 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
- 10Building A Social Network for Productivity (Hojoki)1 people · 6 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 11Introducing Versions and Libraries in Apps Script1 people · 6 points · first shared 2012 · 2 comments on HN
- 12Using Google Tasks API and OAuth 2.0 on Android1 people · 5 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 13More ways for apps to write to Drive1 people · 5 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 14Integrating your Rails application with Google Apps and the Apps Marketplace1 people · 4 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 15Google deploys Tasks API1 people · 4 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
NirDremer · 2012-11-16
Google Drive exposed something similar few months ago.
http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2012/08/allowing-user-to-selec…
Trello was amongst the firsts to add file picker support (great feature we use frequently).
Funny to see that the first player Dropbox picks is Asana ..
joelhaus · 2011-09-02
The Gmail Snooze Google Apps Script is another semi-solution; rather than BCC, it will make a message reappear in your inbox in X days. The difference is that you add a label to any sent mail that you want to follow-up on.
Here's the tutorial: http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2011/07/gmail-snooze-with-apps…
Flenser · 2014-06-26
The Google Apps Developer blog had a post back in 2011 showing how to do this: http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/gmail-snooze-with-ap…
Dorian-Marie · 2014-06-25
Here is the actual Google blog post: http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/introducing-new-gma…
jonathonf · 2014-06-25
Two key bits from the first two paragraphs of the article:
"make it easier for other Internet applications to use information in your email"
"It will replace IMAP"
First one seems par for the course, the second one doesn't seem to be reflected in the Google blog post [1]. Certainly for the moment, thankfully, it looks like IMAP is staying:
"The Gmail API should not be used to replace IMAP for full-fledged email client access" [2]
[1] http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2014/06/introducing-new-gmail-…
[2] https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/
amirmc · 2013-05-17
From the original announcement [1]:
"Today, we are introducing schemas in emails to make messages more interactive and allow developers to deliver a slice of their apps to users’ inboxes.
Schemas in emails can be used to represent various types of entities and actions. Email clients that understand schemas, such as Gmail, can render entities and actions defined in the messages with a consistent user interface."
I haven't looked into this in any depth but it doesn't necessarily seem Gmail specific (a good thing) but it does mean even more clicky buttons in an interface where I can't easily see what those buttons actually do (less good from a security/phishing standpoint).
[1] http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/introducing-actions-…
simoneau · 2013-05-15
This has been around for yes, but new features were announced yesterday:
http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2013/05/new-apps-script-featur…
steerpike · 2013-02-06
Seems pretty offficially supported in this blog post from Nov 2012
http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/announcing-google-d…
and the associated drive SDK for publishing web content https://developers.google.com/drive/publish-site
jervisfm · 2013-02-05
I think that is a user-created page. This feature of Drive launched late last year[1] and you can find more about it from the Drive SDK[2]
[1] - http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2012/11/announcing-google-driv…
[2] - https://developers.google.com/drive/publish-site
ImJasonH · 2012-12-04
Google Drive recently announced a feature similar to this: http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2012/11/announcing-google-driv…
kjhughes · 2012-05-22
Update (2012-05-22): Google Apps Scripts now supports libraries:
http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2012/05/introducing-versions-a…
Yay!
pardo · 2011-09-03
It's not exactly the same as the function you define, but using Google Apps Script you can get a Snooze function pretty easily: http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2011/07/gmail-snooze-with-apps…
With less than an hour of work, I bet you can modify the script to make exactly what you want. Actually, it seems that most of Boomerang's functionalities could be substituted for free with a couple of Google Apps Scripts.
27182818284 · 2014-09-18
As I've mentioned on HN before, I'd really like to see The Next Gmail. (I thought it would maybe occur as Google opened up on Gmail a bit this last June http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2014/06/introducing-new-gmail-…
With time my experience with Gmail keeps degrading and I'm to the point where I notice myself browsing around the web for other options like FastMail and such. I haven't seen anything overwhelmingly better, at least not in the way that Gmail was when it first appeared.
The original Gmail, when it came out and you had to be invited in and such, was mind-blowing better than the competition. I've not seen any update to any Google service since that so clearly was above the competition. Recall that it was so good people thought it was one of their April Fool's Day hoaxes.
Since then, if anything, I've seen Gmail degrade with time. I get more spam now than ever. (And the spam comes in different forms such as via Gmail Chat/Hangouts), the interface is laggy to me on a MacBook Pro with 20mbit↓ connection, and new innovations like the Google Voice merging are always buggier than what they called "Beta" in Gmail circa 2005->2009.
arafalov · 2014-10-22
Ok, if you are going to do it, here is the bunch of links that got there part of the way and need someone to take further:
http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2011/11/parsing-exported-mailb…
https://docs.python.org/3/library/mailbox.html?highlight=mailbox#modul…
https://gist.github.com/ptwobrussell/8791064
http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2013/12/19/searching-my-email/
http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ (if going from mbox to mailbox is easier)