Translate on GlassTrish Whetzel

Outline● Project Workflow● Google Translate API● Glassware● Build App

Project Workflow● Launch app● Speak word of phrase to translate● A card is returned with the translation

Google Translate API*● API or Application programming interface

○ Set of routines, protocols, tools, or remote calls for building software applications.

○ Google Translate API lets websites and programs integrate with Google Translate programmatically

● REST Web service

https://developers.google.com/translate/ *paid service

REST Web services● Accessed via HTTP● Each unique URL is a representation of

some object● Operations include PUT, GET, POST,

DELETE

Translate API operations

Operation Description REST HTTP mapping

translate Translates source text from source language to target language

GET

languages List the source and target languages supported by the translate methods

GET

detect Detect language of source text GET

Translate TextGET https://www.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?key=INSERT-YOUR-KEY&source=en&target=de&q=Hello%20world

Required Parameters:API Key {key} - register on Google Console for an API KeySource text string {q} - text to translateTarget language {target} - language you want to translate into

https://developers.google.com/translate/v2/using_rest#Translate

Response200 OK

{ "data": { "translations": [ { "translatedText": "hola mundo" } ] }}

Glassware● Glass Development Kit (GDK)

○ Add-on to the Android SDK ○ Runs directly on Glass

● Mirror API○ Web-based services that interact with Google Glass ○ Functionality provided over a cloud-based API and

does not require running code on Glasshttps://developers.google.com/glass/

Other Helpful Resources● Coding questions

○ Stack Overflow http://stackoverflow.com/ ○ G+ Glass Developers group https://plus.google.

com/u/0/communities/105104639432156353586 ● Google Glass Sample Code

○ https://github.com/googleglass ● Report Bugs

○ https://code.google.com/p/google-glass-api/

Let’s Get Started!● We’ll extend the ApiDemo sample project

developed by the Google Glass team○ https://github.com/googleglass/gdk-apidemo-sample

● Google Developer documentation for Glass○ https://developers.google.com/glass

Future Work● Add methods to translate TO and FROM any

language supported by the Google Translate API

● Format Layout to display speech input and translated text and image to represent the country of each