Monday, October 20, 2008

Looking at the different Gadget API's

If you are planning to make, write or rather program your own Gadget you will probably need to take a look at the Gadget API.

So why program your own Gadget? You may want to reach out to million of users who can use your Gadget, reach out with your information or service. Promoting your product. Provide functionality to users. Or just for fun...

First you need to know what type of Gadget you want to make. Do you want it to run on websites or in Google Desktop, the sidebar? If you want to make a Gadget that runs on a website take a look at this Gadget API. Else if you want to make a Gadget that runs in the sidebar you should take a look at this Gadget API for Google Desktop.

I'm not going to look at the Gadget API especially for websites. I'm going to work with the Google Desktop Gadget API mainly for desktop applications. There are 2 different Google Desktop API's, Gadget API and the other one is Search API. Both of them use the same SDK.


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