You know what’s great about Google? When it does something for Mac, it does it right. Its support comes in late, but it comes in right. This is why I was delighted to see that when Google finally made its data APIs available to Mac developers today, they did it the right way: An Objective-C Cocoa framework allowing direct access to Google Base, GCal, Blogger and others for any Cocoa-developed apps. Engineer Greg Robbins explains:
The native language for Mac OS X applications is Objective-C, and it’s our preferred language for Mac application development. To make it simpler for us to write Mac software that interacts with Google services, I created a framework to use Google data APIs directly in Objective-C programs. We are using the framework for our application development, and today we are making the framework available to all developers. The Google Data APIs Objective-C Library joins MacFUSE and Breakpad as open-source development efforts of Google’s Mac software team, hosted at code.google.com.
The APIs have been available via Javascript and Java since last year, but it’s reassuring to see Google go the extra mile for Mac developers. It all brings the dream of truly pervasive information that much closer. Google is winning, and we’re all playing along. But they’re just so darned nice about it, you know?
Official Google Mac Blog: Google data APIs connect Cocoa developers to Google
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