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Does the Google Photos app, released on May 28, 2015, have an API which allows uploading of photos? The app seems to build on Picassa and Google+. Can one of their APIs can be used to upload into Google Photos?
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Using the Google Photos Library API your app can read, write, and share photos and videos in Google Photos. The Library API is a RESTful API with JSON payload. The structure of the API is based on the product concepts of Google Photos: Library: media stored in the user's Google Photos account.
You can also drag photos from your computer to the album to upload them to Google Photos. If you drag a photo to a specific album, the photo will be uploaded to that album.
Go to photos.google.com and open any image that you wish to embed in your website. Tap the Share Icon (video tutorial) and then click the Get Link button to generate a shareable link of that image. Go to j.mp/EmbedGooglePhotos, paste that link and it will instantly generate the embed code for your selected picture.
By the looks of it Google Photos is based off the same system Google+ handled photos which was through the Picasa Web Albums Data API.
EDIT: So I came across this question while trying to develop something using Google Photos. Currently I am working on an application that will transfer stuff from Dropbox over to Google Photos.
I can confirm that Google Photos does indeed use Picasa Web Albums API. The API is simply a data storage for anything related to Photos. Drive and Google+ make use of the Data API to persist photos. Looking at picasaweb.google.com you can see it redirects you to Google+ and shows a collection of all of your photo.
You can actually experiment by looking over the Protocol Guide You can further experiment by using the OAuth 2.0 Playground through the Picasa API.
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