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Hi I am in the process of trying to make a google+ app for the Android, Could some explain and tell me what this quote means exactly, "The Google+ API currently provides read-only access to public data.
I want to make a app similiar to the way other developer are making their own apps similiar to facebook and twitter,
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It means the API currently only allows to access data that is public, and you can only read data with it (i.e. you cannot do any "write" operation)
On the opposite, twitter's API allows one to access private data (like direct messages), and to do some write-operations, like post a new tweet.
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