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Posted by Justin Kosslyn, Google Spreadsheet Team
Want to develop new features for google spreadsheets? Want a dynamic, collaborative data store for gadgets embedded in your site? If you answered “yes” to either question, you’re in luck – spreadsheet gadgets can be embedded directly in spreadsheets or use spreadsheets as dynamic data stores.
For example, here’s a Motion Chart gadget that’s reading data from a spreadsheet. You or a collaborator can add more data to the gadget by modifying the underlying spreadsheet.
Or here’s a much simpler example that just integrates Google maps with a simple spreadsheet:
You can extend any existing gadget into a spreadsheet gadget with the Google Visualization API. When your gadgets are ready for prime time, you can submit them to the Gallery and possibly get your gadgets featured on our Gadget picker within the Google Docs spreadsheets editor. So, whether you’re just looking for a simple, dynamic database for your gadget, or want to integrate your other web products or services with Google Docs, check out this platform.
For more information, please check out our new developer documentation, Getting Started with Spreadsheet Gadgets.
We’ll also soon be expanding our APIs to allow your gadgets to write data back to an underlying Spreadsheet.
Give us feedback using our Feedback Form, where you can also let us know if you are interested in participating in early testing of the expanded read-write API.
Posted by Justin Kosslyn, Google Spreadsheet TeamWant to develop new features for google spreadsheets? Want a dynamic, collaborative data store for gadgets embedded in your site? If you answered “yes” to either question, you’re in luck – spread…
Posted by Dan Holevoet, Developer ProgramsFellow gadget developers, I’m happy to announce the opening of the iGoogle developer sandbox, which supports both OpenSocial and the new gadgets.* JavaScript API.For more information about the new sandbox, make…
Posted by Dan Holevoet, Developer ProgramsFellow gadget developers, I’m happy to announce the opening of the iGoogle developer sandbox, which supports both OpenSocial and the new gadgets.* JavaScript API.For more information about the new sandbox, make…
Posted by Jeff Regan, EngineerWe’ve launched a new feature for iGoogle that allows people to use a gadget collaboratively, similar to Google Docs. Its now possible for multiple instances of a gadget – on the home pages of different users – to access t…
Posted by Jeff Regan, EngineerWe’ve launched a new feature for iGoogle that allows people to use a gadget collaboratively, similar to Google Docs. Its now possible for multiple instances of a gadget – on the home pages of different users – to access t…
Posted by Dan Holevoet, Google Gadgets TeamI thought I’d let you all know about Google I/O, a developer event upcoming on the 28th and 29th of May at Moscone West in San Francisco. There are a lot of exciting opportunities at the event, including: bre…
Posted by Dan Holevoet, Google Gadgets TeamI thought I’d let you all know about Google I/O, a developer event upcoming on the 28th and 29th of May at Moscone West in San Francisco. There are a lot of exciting opportunities at the event, including: bre…
Posted by Nir Bar-Lev, Product Management
Visualizations have always been a great way to display data and get insights. The sales graph always needs to go up, right? I’ve yet to see a boardroom with a table of data instead of interesting graphs. And of-course it’s not just about businesses and boardrooms, we all like to visualize our information.
The problem is that many times it is hard to integrate the visual components with the data and application. It’s long and frustrating. Is this familiar?
Well, today we’ve launched the Google Visualization API, which has a gadget extension that lets gadget developers develop amazing visual gadgets over an open API to structured data sources, the first of which being Google Spreadsheets. We’ve also added a discussion group just for this type of Visual Gadgets and the API extensions.
We look forward to seeing great things from you using this new API.
Posted by Nir Bar-Lev, Product Management Visualizations have always been a great way to display data and get insights. The sales graph always needs to go up, right? I’ve yet to see a boardroom with a table of data instead of interesting graphs. And…
Posted by Brian Shih, Google Gadgets TeamOnce again, our very own Dann Lee stars in a great tutorial on building gadgets. In this video, you’ll learn how to write a gadget step-by-step. We’ll take one of our popular gadgets and show you how to build y…
Posted by Brian Shih, Google Gadgets TeamOnce again, our very own Dann Lee stars in a great tutorial on building gadgets. In this video, you’ll learn how to write a gadget step-by-step. We’ll take one of our popular gadgets and show you how to build y…
Posted by Daniel Lee, Google Gadgets TeamWhat: Google Developer Hackathon: JavaScript APIs Google will be holding a hackathon to get you started on our JavaScript APIs! We will be doing short introductions of the APIs and then breaking up into groups…