In June, we announced that CardDAV -- an open standard for accessing contact information
across the web – was available
to everyone.
Today, we’re adding several new features that improve the user experience:
High resolution contact photos, which enables syncing of full-screen
photos used by some mobile devices including iPhones (previously we supported 96x96
thumbnails).
Sync-Collections, which
improves battery life for mobile users by reducing the amount of data exchanged.
POST support, which
reduces mobile data usage when creating new contacts.
For Google Apps users, searching the domain’s Global Address List.
Most of these features are available today with Apple iOS 7 devices that sync with Google
Contacts. You can find more information about these features in the Developer’s
Guide.
+Hakson Teh
is the Tech Lead for the Google CardDAV API. His current focus is to provide a great contacts
sync experience with Google products for both developers and users.
By Hakson Teh, Tech
Lead