Base diving with Google Gears
By Dion
Almaer and Pamela Fox, Google Developer ProgramsPamela
and I have been enjoying some time building applications with the
ever growing set of Google
APIs.
As we build these applications we are capturing some of
the decisions you may face in building your own, in a series of articles called
Building Better Ajax
Applications with Google APIs.
The first article, and
application, is a
Google Base reader,
powered by
Google
Gears, to enable offline use.
The application had us delving
into:
- The various components of Google
Gears
- How to use the SQLite local database and helpful wrappers around
common patterns
- How to capture web resources to make them available to
offline use and the issues that you need to be aware of
- How to use the
Google Base Data API, specifically
getting JSON output into our application
- How to debug your offline Ajax
application.
Please take a
peek
at the application, type in some search queries, and then
read the how-to
article.
