{"id":39336,"date":"2013-04-16T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=39336"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:30:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:30:42","slug":"the-first-app-for-google-glass-appears-as-api-documentation-is-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-first-app-for-google-glass-appears-as-api-documentation-is-released\/","title":{"rendered":"The first app for Google Glass appears as API documentation is released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-39338\" title=\"GLASS\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/GLASS1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>If you&#8217;re one of the lucky few to be getting a Google Glass device, you can already download the accompanying Android app <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.google.glass.companion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>MyGlass<\/strong><\/a>, and visit the setup wizard web app Glass.<\/p>\n<p>MyGlass lets you <strong>manage<\/strong> and <strong>configure<\/strong> Google Glass, and allows your phone to work in sync with Glass. The app can access authenticated accounts on your device, send SMS messages, and features location services which are essential to how Glass works. The <a href=\"https:\/\/glass.google.com\/setup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>web app<\/strong><\/a> is for first time setup of the device.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/glass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>documentation<\/strong><\/a> for the &#8216;Mirror API&#8217;, which is what developers will use to write apps for Glass, is interesting. It reveals that currently <strong>developers will not be able to charge for apps<\/strong>, <strong>nor include advertising<\/strong>. It also adopts an Apple-like approach to its ecosystem: software for Glass will only be distributed through official Google channels, unlike the more free attitude taken with Android.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39339\" title=\"MyGlass\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/GLASS2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/GLASS2.png 600w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/GLASS2-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These two factors, unusual for Google, may change in the future. It&#8217;s easy to see how more control over the Glass experience makes sense in its infancy. It&#8217;s also hard to imagine that ads will never make their way onto Glass devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re one of the lucky few to be getting a Google Glass device, you can already download the accompanying Android app MyGlass, and visit the setup wizard web app Glass. MyGlass lets you manage and configure Google Glass, and allows your phone to work in sync with Glass. The app can access authenticated accounts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-first-app-for-google-glass-appears-as-api-documentation-is-released\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The first app for Google Glass appears as API documentation is released&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2340],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-39336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333101,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39336\/revisions\/333101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39336"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=39336"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=39336"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=39336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}