Drive Realtime API Brings Google Docs-style Collaboration to Third-Party Apps

Some developers have already begun utilizing the API Google Drive’s real-time collaboration capabilities have always been regarded as a key component of its overall appeal. Now, for the first time, some of these collaboration features are available to third-party developers for integration into their own apps. “With the new Google Drive Realtime API, you can now easily add some of the same real-time collaboration that powers Google Drive to your own apps,” wrote Brian Cairns, a software engineer at Google, in a post on the Google Developers blog. “This new API handles network communication, storage, presence, conflict resolution, and other collaborative details so you can focus on building great apps.” According to the blog post, developers are likely to discover that develo