One of the core skills developers should have when using the Google Slides API is the ability to add text to presentations. It’s also good to know how to add shapes as well. In this G Suite Dev Show DevByte video, Google engineer Wesley Chun shows you how to do both with the Slides API. As a bonus, you'll also learn how to add text INTO shapes!
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Adding Shapes and Text HOWTO:
Page elements concepts guide:
Transforms concepts guide:
“Formatting text using the Google Slides API” DevByte video:
“Replacing text & images with the Google Slides API” DevByte video:
Overview of the Google Slides API:
Common operations & API samples:
Slides API reference documentation:
Slides API Python quickstart:
Deeper dive code review of script used in this DevByte:
Slides API pre-launch announcement at Google I/O 2016:
Slides API launch announcement (Nov 2016):
Slides API developers launch announcement (Nov 2016):
Slides API documentation home page:
“Setting up new Google API projects” DevByte video:
Google Developers Console:
Google APIs Client Libraries:
“Common Python code walkthrough” DevByte video:
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