Articles

• Anatomy of an orkut Application
  An orkut application is comprised of several parts, all of which combine to form a structured user experience. As you develop your application, use this guide as both a checklist of components which should be utilized, as well as a means to understand the relationship between the components.


• OpenSocial Tutorial for orkut
  Crawl, walk, run. In this tutorial you'll start small and add features until you have an app that lets users exchange gifts with their friends. Who wants a red pistachio?


• Lifecycle of an orkut Application
  All orkut applications have a well-defined lifecycle that begins with development and testing, followed by submission and review, and finally maintenance. This article covers each aspect of the lifecycle in detail and provides tips you can follow to make sure your application provides a great experience for all orkut users.


• Latency Tips for orkut
  Get your app up to speed with these techniques for reducing load times. From general web development best practices to orkut tips and tricks, make your app more responsive and reduce the load on your server at the same time.


• Requesting orkut Albums and Photos
  In addition to fetching friends and posting activities, orkut also enables developers to access user albums and photos via JavaScript. This article describes the Albums API in detail and includes code snippets to help you get started.


• Creating orkut-styled Tabs
  Matching the look and feel of the container is one important aspect of writing a polished application. With this guide, you can use the built-in gadgets tab library to have tabs that look like they belong in orkut.