Glympse Development Options

Overview

Given all of the support requests, and our own personal requirements for other types of web technology that we want to play with, we're starting a landing page for integrating Glympse into your personal applications and web sites.

Below, you will find a growing list of Glympse integration options, covering a (hopefully) wide range of platform options and features. Please bear with us while we assemble this set of features. Please drop us a line if there is something specific you would like to see. We are more than happy to put a custom solution together and share it with the Glympse development community.

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"Vanity" Glympses

As a bit of background, mobile Glympse applications allow for anyone to publish a Glympse to their public stream on Twitter. This allows users to broadly publish their location to anybody that is following them or searches for them via Twitter's search mechanism. It is precisely this format that will allow interested viewers to tap in on the location of your choosing.

This eases the burden on the site development end from constantly having to update links with the latest unique Glympse ticket id that is generated when a new Glympse is created. Currently, the Glympser will take the latest ticket in the public Twitter stream for a given Twitter id, so you can't "share" Glympses on one account (unless they will never overlap).

From the example .html included below, all that really is needed is to exchange the sample Twitter user id (specified in the Javascript config settings) with whatever Twitter id you want to use to display to users, along with targeting where on your page you want it to be placed (including sizing info).

Integration into your site effectively requires only a couple of <script> includes, and the settings for viewing a Twitter-based Glympse, along with a named <div> for where you would like the Glympse to appear.

Update 03 Aug 2011: New example updates due to infrastructure changes

Update 05 Sep 2011: New example updates due to changes in Twitter Glympse searches, along with a couple of new options:
  - "wmode" - Sets the wmode parameter of the Glympser Flash control. Available options: window, opaque, transparent
  - "expandMode" - Allows for full-screen or pop-out modes of the Glympser, when users click on the expand button in the footer
  - Multiple ticket or Twitter ids can be specified in the "idTwitter" and "idTicket" options by separating entries with a semicolon (;)
      [example: idTwitter : twitterId1;twitterId2, idTicket : ticketId1;ticketId2 ]

 

Download: Integrated Glympse Twitter example

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Upcoming Features

Over the coming months, we'll be adding additional information and examples for website integration, but will also roll out tutorials and samples for various handset platforms to more seemless integation of Glympse and your mobile app. Target platforms will include Android, iPhone, and Windows Mobile. Anything can pop up at any time, so please check back regularly for any updates.

Again, please don't hesitate to drop us a line if you are looking for something specific.

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