Activating Your Mirror API

Before your app can begin authenticating users, you must activate its Mirror API and secure both a client ID and a client secret key. Here’s the rub: until Glass is available to the general public, you must be a Glass Explorer to activate this API.

Like all API activations, you access this through Google’s APIs Console. If you notice a message at the top of the screen that says something like “Try the New Cloud Console”, click that. These steps won’t work for the old API console.

Also please note that Google is still in the midst of creating the new Developer Console, and some of these steps are liable to change after publication.

Steps for activating are as follows:

  1. Visit Google’s new Developer Console.[14]

  2. Select ...

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