Fusion Tables is software that Google has designed. For various security- and privacy-related issues, Google only wants verified software to send/receive data to/from Fusion Tables. Hence, we need to establish our identity before our Event App can exchange data with Google Fusion Tables. In this section, we will describe how to create Google service-level authentication to establish this credential.
To establish the service-level authentication credentials, follow these instructions:
Go to https://console.developers.google.com/ and log in with your Google account if necessary. On the Getting started page, click on the Use Google APIs button as shown in the following screenshot:
The acronym API stands for Application Programming Interface. To describe it in a very simple manner, an API defines a way for computers to interact with websites (essentially for software programs to interact). Developers at companies like Twitter, Facebook, and Google create protocols...