For all those curious about what it's like to develop for Google Glass, your wait is over.

On Monday, the search giant released its Google Mirror API, which allows developers to begin creating applications for Glass. Web-based services called “Glassware” will interact with Glass over the cloud-based API, and will not require any code to be run on the Glass hardware.

Teased at a South by Southwest event by Timothy Jordan, Google’s senior developer advocate, the API has a few key features that will go into applications: managing timeline cards, interacting with menu items, subscribing to timeline notifications, sharing to contacts and working with user location.

To help developers get started, Google has posted a developer guide, reference documentation and UI guidelines for each function on its Developers site, along with a short video explaining each, featuring Jordan.

Check out the video for timeline cards, below.