Hyves API & Android

Android Dev Camp Amsterdam2009

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About Hyves

• A social networking service founded in 2004 • Exclusive focus on The Netherlands, 100 employees

 • 5 million active Dutch members, used by 55% of population

 • 5 billion pageviews a month, 2 million a day on iPhone 

 • Profitable through advertising and premium services

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Hyves & mobile

• Hyves started out as a mobile only play.... • 10% of our users frequently use any of the mobile clients

 • We see mobile as the ultimate social networking interface

 • Location based services are a key focus point

 • iPhone app has been launched, J2ME any time now...

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Hyves developer tools

• API launched in March 2008, currently version 1.1 • 2000 registered API partners

 • Used to build our own products (mobile, desktop, TV)

 • Public, private and experimental r/w methods

 • Use with OpenSocial, RSS and XMPP

 • http://trac.hyves-api.nl/hyves-api

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Hyves & Android

• We plan to develop a full Android client this year • For tonight, have a look at these methods in particular: 

 o hangouts.geto users.getByHangoutLastlogin o wwws.getByHangouto albums.getByHangout o events.getByHangout o wwws.getByUsero wwws.getForFriendso wwws.create o media.getUploadToken 

 o http://www.hyves.nl/mobile/api/authorize/

Methods may return more information if you supply a valid access token to oauth_token

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If you've got a cool app or mashup

We will:

• Give you a promotional budget of EUR 10K  • Mention it on our homepage

  So let's get started!

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Ask us and go here:

Getting started• http://trac.hyves-api.nl/hyves-api/wiki/APIGettingStarted

 Available methods • http://trac.hyves-api.nl/hyves-api/wiki/APIMethods/experimental

 Derk                             Kilian 

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