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SAP Cloud Computing: Integrating Google
Glasses with SAP
Posted by Alessandro Iannacci Jun 6, 2014
If you are an SAP Developer, and you read the Basar Ozgur Kahraman blog: Google Glass quick start demo
on HANA, you can feel a little neglected.

There are several libraries developed by Google to leverage Mirror APIs, such as Java, Javascript, Php,
Objective C and so on, but no one has thought about the "good old" ABAP!

So how can we do to leverage the Mirror APIs from SAP? Imagine how many things you could do if you can
control the Google Glasses directly from ABAP!

Ok, maybe is a little early from a business perspective, but I think that everybody should anticipate the ideas,
and I don't like to leave ABAP as the last programming language in the world, so I am glad to present to you:

google-api-ABAP-client



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The google-api-ABAP-client is available on GitHub at the following link Gh14Cc10/google-api-ABAP-client
GitHub, and this is a short demo that will make you understand what you can do using SAP with a real Google
Glasses device:



Q/A

1. What is google-api-ABAP-client?
R. it's a library written in ABAP to leverage Google APIs (it's a newborn project so for now it supports only
Mirror APIs)

2. What can I do with this library?
R. at this moment you can only do operations on the users google glasses timeline that are in the Google
Cloud

3.Is the library secure?
R. the library leverages OAuth2 authentication protocol using an encrypted connection (HTTP over SSL)

4. How is the project structured
R. the library is directly translated from the official Google PHP library (google-api-PHP-client) and uses the
existing zJSON project se38/zJSON GitHub

5. Is it possible to collaborate?
R. Yes of course we are happy to have you in this project, so please join us asap on GitHub!

How to use

It is very simple to use google-api-ABAP-client:

1. download the nugget and import all the objects using SAPLink: Home | SAPlink Project | Assembla
2. install the certificates using the S_TRUST T-Code
3. if needed change the proxy settings
4. run the demo report ZGOOGLE_TEST and enjoy!

I made a short video to make things more understandable:




If you want to test your ABAP-GLASSES developments without a real device you can use Google Playground
(but it is a little limited, for example the Google Playground is not able to renderize menu items or maps) or
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Xenologer (zhuowei/Xenologer GitHub) that is the real google glasses OS modified to run on an android
device (unfortunately html 5 and maps at the moment are not supported, so probably you will have some
rendering inconsistencies, but at least menu items are working).


Many thanks to Alessandra Turri Ivan Femia and Basar Ozgur Kahraman for the great contribution they have
made to enable the realization of this project.
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Mahalakshmi Krishnan
Jul 25, 2014 7:16 AM
hi,
really very nice thing to integrate ABAP with Google Glass hats off
Alessandro Iannacci in response to Davide Poletti on page 3
Jul 13, 2014 2:46 PM
Ciao chiedi pure!
Davide Poletti
Jul 11, 2014 3:50 PM
Ciao Alessandro,

Fantastica iniziativa ! Ho installato il tuo tool e ti volevo chiedere un piccolo aiuto se possibile sulla parte di
autenticazione del certificato google su sap ?

Grazie.
Davide.
Ashok Babu Kumili
Jul 10, 2014 8:24 AM
Hello Alessandro Iannacci,
Great read.. Indeed, Very helpful... Awesome article.... This is a brilliant way to go.

Regards Ashok
Jelena Perfiljeva
Jul 9, 2014 6:33 PM
Really cool, thanks for sharing! Video is a nice cherry on top.
Joao Sousa
Jun 28, 2014 3:37 PM
Amazing stuff congratulations.
Alessandro Iannacci
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Jun 11, 2014 3:04 PM
Hi all, under some request I am adding the Google API Console client settings, so if you want, you can create
your own project:


Alessandro Iannacci in response to Randy Middleton on page 4
Jun 9, 2014 4:27 PM
Thanks, let me know, I will support you for any problem.
Randy Middleton
Jun 9, 2014 3:57 PM
Thanks for your efforts. I have to wait to try your additions. More feed back soon.
Alessandro Iannacci in response to Manuel Bellet on page 4
Jun 9, 2014 9:50 AM
Grazie Manuel!
Manuel Bellet
Jun 8, 2014 12:17 PM
Wonderful job!
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Alessandro Iannacci in response to Rahul Muraleedharan on page 5
Jun 7, 2014 3:32 AM
Thank you Rahul!
Alessandro Iannacci in response to Basar Ozgur Kahraman on page 5
Jun 7, 2014 3:32 AM
Thank you Basar! I appreciated and also I am so glad to met you.

I will propose to Google

Let me know if you are able to try the framework!
Basar Ozgur Kahraman
Jun 6, 2014 11:38 PM
Awesome! Congratulations Alessandro!!

You brought ABAP to new trendy technology and gave a hand to ABAP developers to use googleglass. Google
should add ABAP into GoogleGlass documents now.

I am so glad to met you...
Thank you very much for your efforts

Regards
Basar Ozgur
Rahul Muraleedharan
Jun 6, 2014 11:30 PM
Great job Alessandro! Good initiative.