Hello everybody! Solaris is proud to announce that we have made solid progress on implementing the Google Drive API in our React prototype. So far, we have added default file icons to provide easy visualization of the files which will assist us with building the prototype. These icons will be replaced with Parchment’s UX during the final integration, but for now they provide us with a baseline for the visual. We have also successfully used the API to allow files and folders to open from the React app. At this point in time, clicking on the icon of each file opens that file in a separate tab in your browser. The last feature we were able to implement this week is the ability to create files. There is a create file button at the top of the screen that when clicked, provides users with the opportunity to name their new file and choose from a selection of file types (plain text file, Google Doc, Google Slides, or Google Sheets). This file is consequently created in the user’s Google Drive and will show up in the React application once the page is refreshed.

Our goal for this next week is to continue experimenting with the API and get even more features up and running. We have plans to finish this prototype soon and we’re excited to begin integrating our work into Parchment in the future!

See you next week!