I am very new to Ionic, but I have already experimented (and succeeded) with adding a basic Google+ log in to my Ionic app. Unfortunately, Google+ does not give me the access which I want - slides in users’ Google drive. I have been searching and reading up, but I am really not even sure of how to begin doing so. I assume that I will have to add a native Google login button (but not Google+), and add a provider to get the authorisation I need, but I would appreciate some links and advice as to what direction/ what readings I should do to get this out as soon as possible. Thank you in advance!
P.S. I have already read the Google Slides API documentation, and they do not mention anything about how to integrate with Ionic. Meanwhile, the creation of a Google sign-in button only has a tutorial for Android Studio…should I just switch to that instead? I have negligible AngularJS knowledge…
To be more exact, I am mainly looking out for read-only access. I intend to attempt developing a remote presenter such that users can use their mobile phones to control the slides on their computers. Hence, I hope to build on the Google slides API and gain access to the slide data (with proper authentication, of course) so that I will not have to develop an additional place for users to create and edit slides. This is a personal project, and I do not intend to push it out publicly.
I am giving myself a crash course on AngularJS right now, which I believe Ionic is closely tied to. However, I have no confidence that doing so will help me with integrating Google Slides API with Ionic and I can hardly find any information about this on haha Google itself…
P.S. is there a reason why all the tutorials only use Google+ login as an example?
Better switch to Angular, which is totally different from AngularJS, which is what modern versions of Ionic (v2+) use. Otherwise you are learning obsolete tech.
Most of these are “use social networks as login” type thingies, so using Google+ made sense for quite some time.
I would look into how to access Google Drive documents somehow. Sheets and Docs are “part” of Drive, and I think there might be some examples on how to get stuff out of Drive into apps.
Oh my… Glad that you let me know right now…I will make the switch immediately. But do you mean Angular, or Angular2? I can only see this when I google “angular ionic”:
In the beginning there was the Javascript Framework Angular.js, also called Angular or AngularJS or Angular 1. Then came a totally new version of Angular v2.x where everything is different, so they decided to call the old one not “Angular” any more and give the Angular name exclusively to v2+. So now we have AngularJS (v1) and Angular (v2+). Ionic currently is using Angular v4 - which is pretty similar to Angular v2.
(Similar things happened to Ionic where we now have “Ionic v1” and “Ionic” (which includes v2+, currently v3.3.0).
I did something about that:
Default setting so new users can’t create 200 topics that we have to delete manually later… Believe me: Worth the tradeoff in inconvenience to you. Still sorry about that.
Glad that you let me know right now…I will make the switch immediately. But do you mean Angular, or Angular2? I can only see this when I google “angular ionic”: