Google Gmail Contextual Gadget Example

Question

So I'm interested in learning how to program a Gmail gadget to do some silly things but I have no experience in it. I have spent the past month or so sporadically reading through the API (https://developers.google.com/gmail/contextual_gadgets), but haven't made much progress. I was wondering if anyone with experience would be willing to answer the following:

1) What files exactly do we need for a gadget? Just the manifest and the spec? Should they have specific names?

2) https://developers.google.com/gmail/contextual_gadgets?csw=1#hello_world_example_manifest Where this link has the example code and says to substitute your own info in for example.com, what does that mean? And why do we need to do this?

3) Would you have some really simple gadget, i.e. a 'hello world' that you would be willing to share as an example? (I'm not trying to steal your code, I'm just interested in seeing a full finished piece and seeing what I need to work on in my project)

Thanks a bunch!

Answer 1

For creating a gadget you need minimum of 2 files.

manifest.xml - specifies extractor and gadget

gadget.xml - it includes what you would like to display in mail

Check this guide for more details.