Elevate your apps in Google Drive
By Nicolas Garnier, Developer Relations
When Google Drive launched,
we
also introduced the Google Drive SDK, which enables you to
deeply
integrate your apps into Drive. Using the
Drive SDK, you can offer your users
an experience similar to how
Google
Docs or
Google
Sheets interact with Drive. More than a hundred web apps now integrate with Google
Drive in this way.
Today we are making several changes to Google Drive to help users more easily discover,
connect and use these Drive-enabled apps.
Google Drive Create menu
The Google Drive
Create menu now elevates Drive-connected apps to the same
level as Google apps such as Docs and Sheets. This makes your Drive-connected apps easier to
reach and more visible to Google Drive users.
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| New Google Drive
Create menu |
As you can see, we’ve made some space in the
Create menu for your apps,
which users can add by clicking on
Connect more apps.
Browse and Connect Drive-enabled Apps
Google Drive users can now browse and connect Drive-enabled apps right from within Drive
thanks to the new
Connect apps to Drive dialog:
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| Connect some Google Drive-enabled web apps to your
Drive |
After installing an app, users can instantly start using your Drive app to create or open
files directly from within Drive.
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| Opening a file in Google Drive with a connected
app |
If your app is already Google Drive-enabled and listed in the Chrome Web Store’s
Drive
collection, you don’t have to do anything new to take advantage of these new
features. We will automatically pull all the information from your existing Chrome Web Store
listing.
If your web app is not yet Google Drive-enabled, check out how you can
integrate with the create-new and the
open-with actions and then
get your Drive-enabled app
listed in the new
Connect apps to Drive dialog.
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.
Posted by Scott Knaster,
Editor
