1. 0 Y! Mail Application Development Platform Open Hack day 14 th Feb 2009

2. 1 Agenda An Introduction Application Scope Becoming a OpenMail hacker What is a View? Application Configuration Building your first OpenMail application Available APIs Reference

3. 2 Introduction It is a platform for developing applications that can work on top of users Inbox Also called Yahoo! Mail Development Platform Can convert 'Inbox' to a ’More Smarter Inbox' through applications providing rich functionality Ability to share applications with others

4. 3 Application Scope Accessing Mail Features –Application can get access to user’s e-mail content (on a manual drag-drop basis only)‏ –Application can trigger a new mail 'Compose' ( but cannot automatically send a mail)‏ Accessing Yahoo! Calender –Application can ’Add a new event’ Accessing user’s data on Yahoo! Network –Either using YQL or individual Yahoo! Property level webservice (e.g Mail, Answers etc)Mail Answers Application Rendering Options –Tabbed View and Dialog View Application Space –Each application gets a storage space of 5 mb for application components ( js, css, images etc) Only available with ’All new Yahoo! Mail’ (not with Yahoo! Mail Classic)

5. 4 Becoming a OpenMail Hacker Collect a OpenMail hacker ID(one per team)‏ and test Yahoo! IDs from us Login to the test Yahoo! ID Register all your test Yahoo! ID under the hacker ID by logging into http://om1.mail.vip.mud.yahoo.com/openmail/dev_activate.php http://om1.mail.vip.mud.yahoo.com/openmail/dev_activate.php Start you development at http://om1.mail.vip.mud.yahoo.com/openmail/devtool.php http://om1.mail.vip.mud.yahoo.com/openmail/devtool.php

6. 5 All About Open Mail Application

7. What is a View? Each page of an open Mail Application is called a view A view is simply HTML that can be rendered inside the Mail UI An application can be collection of one/more views

8. Application Configuration XML based application Config –For outlining application launch methods E.g clicking on application, drag of a message on application etc –For configuring which and what type (Tabbed/Dialog) of view to trigger upon application launch

9. Building your first OpenMail application Login to the developer tool and create a new Application Goto 'Views' tab and create a new view, say 'HelloMail' Add some HTML to display 'Hello Mail' and save it Login to mail with the test Yahoo! ID Click on 'Add' near Applications section and add your application

10. Available APIs Web Services –Request are sent through Adobe Flash –Requests have a crossdomain.xml file configured to accept '*.yimg.com' domains –Use openmail.Application.callWebService method to make the call –More info at http://om0001.mail.mud.yahoo.com/om/docs/OpenapiPublic/Applica tion.html http://om0001.mail.mud.yahoo.com/om/docs/OpenapiPublic/Applica tion.html For generating Views –openmail.Application.openView() –openmail.Application.closeView() –More info at http://om0001.mail.mud.yahoo.com/om/docs/OpenapiPublic/Applica tion.html http://om0001.mail.mud.yahoo.com/om/docs/OpenapiPublic/Applica tion.html

11. Available APIs contd... Interacting with Mail –openmail.Mail.compose() - used to compose a new mail –openmail.Mail.search() - this method will initiate a keyword search inside mail –More info at http://om0001.mail.mud.yahoo.com/om/docs/OpenapiPublic/Mail.ht ml http://om0001.mail.mud.yahoo.com/om/docs/OpenapiPublic/Mail.ht ml Accessing Application Data –openmail.Application.setData() – persistently stores the given key- value pair object in the application space –Openmail.Application.getData() – retrieve the values of the keys from the application space –More info at http://om0001.mail.mud.yahoo.com/om/docs/OpenapiPublic/Applica tion.html http://om0001.mail.mud.yahoo.com/om/docs/OpenapiPublic/Applica tion.html

12. Available APIs contd... Miscellaneous APIs –AuthService Class is available for making authorized web service calls. –Supports OAuth (2 and 3 legged) and BBAuth –openmail.Calendar.addEvent() method for adding a new event in Yahoo! Calender –For detailed information refer http://om0001.mail.mud.yahoo.com/om/docs/OpenapiPublic/ http://om0001.mail.mud.yahoo.com/om/docs/OpenapiPublic/

13. References Open Mail Dev Tool - http://om1.mail.vip.mud.yahoo.com/openmail/devtool.php http://om1.mail.vip.mud.yahoo.com/openmail/devtool.php API Documentation - http://om0001.mail.mud.yahoo.com/om/docs/OpenapiPublic/ http://om0001.mail.mud.yahoo.com/om/docs/OpenapiPublic/ Complete Open Mail Documentation http://openhack2009.pbwiki.com/f/YMDP-documentation-020409.pdf http://openhack2009.pbwiki.com/f/YMDP-documentation-020409.pdf Registering test Yahoo! ID with hacker accounts http://om1.mail.vip.mud.yahoo.com/openmail/dev_activate.php http://om1.mail.vip.mud.yahoo.com/openmail/dev_activate.php Other Yahoo! APIs http://developer.yahoo.comhttp://developer.yahoo.com

14. 13 Happy Hacking!!! Thank You!