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Google Drive’s real-time collaboration capabilities have always been regarded as a key component of its overall appeal. Now, for the first time, some of these collaboration features are available to third-party developers for integration into their own apps.
“With the new Google Drive Realtime API, you can now easily add some of the same real-time collaboration that powers Google Drive to your own apps,” wrote Brian Cairns, a software engineer at Google, in a post on the Google Developers blog. “This new API handles network communication, storage, presence, conflict resolution, and other collaborative details so you can focus on building great apps.”
According to the blog post, developers are likely to discover that developing for the Drive Realtime API is no tougher than it is to work with local objects. Further, developers can look forward to good performance on even high-latency networks.
“The API provides collaborative versions of familiar data objects such as maps, lists, strings, and JSON values and automatically synchronizes and stores modifications to these objects. Your application reads from and writes to these objects like any other local object. Change event handlers can be added to collaborative objects so that your app can react to changes from other collaborators.”
If you want to see the Drive Realtime API in action, there are at least three apps that currently make use of it. They are Neutron Drive, Gantter and draw.io.
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