Google today updated its CardDAV API, a protocol for sharing address books and contacts on a server. Developers who sync with Google Contacts will enjoy the additions.
Here are the four new features rolling out today:
- High resolution contact photos, which enables syncing of full-screen photos used by some mobile devices including iPhones (previously we supported 96×96 thumbnails).
- Sync-Collections, which improves battery life for mobile users by reducing the amount of data exchanged.
- POST support, which reduces mobile data usage when creating new contacts.
- For Google Apps users, searching the domain’s Global Address List.
This is the first major update to the CardDav API. Google launched it in June 2013 when it reversed a decision to kill off its CalDAV API.
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