Finally, Google Tasks API

[toomanymike]

https://code.google.com/apis/tasks/index.html

[cwilson]

I'm specifically excited about productivity applications and even third party mail clients (Sparrow, etc) taking advantage of GMail emails being associated with a task.

[sheriff → cwilson]

I agree that this would be great, but I don't see anything in the docs which suggests this task-to-email linkage is available via the API. If I'm overlooking something, please let me know, as I would definitely like to use that.

[chrisfarms → sheriff]

Sounds like quite doable little project for Google Apps users by combining the Gadgets[1], Inbox Feed[2] and Tasks APIs

[1] http://code.google.com/apis/gmail/gadgets/ [2] http://code.google.com/apis/gmail/docs/inbox_feed.html

[initself]

Now I would really like a proper Contacts API. For custom fields, Gmail uses one format and Google Apps another. That's a big oversight, and one no one has seemed to recognize yet.

[Roritharr]

How did the android apps that are in the market get my task lists without the api?

[makeramen → Roritharr]

usually some sort of hacked together html scraping

[foobarbazetc → makeramen]

No, they all use the 'unofficial' API.