For all those curious about what it's like to develop for Google Glass, your wait is over.
On Monday, the search giant released its Google Mirror API, which allows developers to begin creating applications for Glass. Web-based services called “Glassware” will interact with Glass over the cloud-based API, and will not require any code to be run on the Glass hardware.
Teased at a South by Southwest event by Timothy Jordan, Google’s senior developer advocate, the API has a few key features that will go into applications: managing timeline cards, interacting with menu items, subscribing to timeline notifications, sharing to contacts and working with user location.
To help developers get started, Google has posted a developer guide, reference documentation and UI guidelines for each function on its Developers site, along with a short video explaining each, featuring Jordan.
Check out the video for timeline cards, below.
Earlier Monday, Google sent an email to Glass Explorers — the developers who signed up to be part of Glass during last year’s Google I/O — saying that the first Glass units were leaving the production line, and were almost ready to ship to developers. Google also indicated that it would be sending Glass to developers in waves, notifying them individually via email when their Explorer edition is ready to ship.
If you're a developer, or are just curious about Glass, you can check out all of the Mirror API info, here.
