Google is a gem in the industry of technology for a long time. It has approximately contributed to every aspect of the technology industry. After the alphabet restructuring, it became the single most valuable company in the world. Google has made some memorable contributions to the community of open-source projects that you can use and many of them are being used by major companies. Open source projects like Angular JS, Kubernetes, Android, Chromium are being used by billions of users.
What is an open-source project?
When a project is open-source, that means anybody is free to use, study, modify, and distribute your project for any purpose. These permissions are enforced through an open-source license. Also because it gives users the potential to control their own computing, relative to closed source
We have brought a big list of top google open source projects that are completely focused on ubiquity and market pervasiveness, GitHub stars, and other news that were trending. So let’s begin with the list:
Android
Till the year 2015, approximately 1.4 billion devices that were connected to the internet were running Android as an operating system. This shows that Android is the most popular operating system that is being used in the world. This outranked the windows operating system also.
The big reason behind this was that it is available for free for manufacturers to be provided on the devices. This means that devices can be much cheaper because they don’t charge anything as a license fee for that operating system. As a result, this made Google massive support in the markets of developing. Furthermore, now android has been adopted by hundreds of millions of people across the world.
Chromium
If you a user of the internet then you must be familiar with the Chrome browser. Many people don’t know that your chrome browser is somewhat based on google open source project. This google open source project is named as Chromium. The availability of chromium is the same as chrome, i.e. you can easily download Chromium just like chrome.
Apart from this Chromium is a very good browser also. Few differences that are there in between chrome and chromium are in terms of a few proprietary components that most of the people don’t even know about.
Chromium OS
It is very similar to Chrome and Chromium. The Chrome OS is also having a base of open source that has been named as Chromium OS. This is termed as a Linux based operating system that is completely designed for ultra-portable and always stay connected to devices.
It is usually based on Gentoo Linux distribution. This is well known for its minimalistic and security. There is hardly anything that makes the Chromium browser better than Chromium IOS. This has been made as a lightweight system.
Angular JS
It is a utility for the front-ends of web applications. This completely focuses on simplifying the challenges of the development of web applications and single page websites. Although this is being managed by Google but has developed a big community. This community includes individuals and corporations that he is assisting it in its maintenance and also in the development.
Dart
This is another language that is developed from Google. Dart is completely aimed at web application servers, mobile applications, and also IoT languages. If we compare it with Go which I will mention further dart is a compiled language. This is termed as a scripting language that is suitable for running on a virtual machine more such as Java or Python. If we add anything in Dart’s own virtual machine, we can use it into javascript for having more portability.
Go
It was developed in the year 2007and finally got a launch in the year 2009. Go is referred to as a programming language that was developed to focus on the difficulties that were there in the C programming language. This was done by providing as much flexibility as possible. The rule that is followed by Go is to sacrifice bells and whistles for simplifying. When it was launched there were so many controversies about the features that were removed in this. After this, the author argued that this will be better if we go with the success of Go.
Deepmind Lab
It is termed as a 3D environment for learning that is based on Id software’s Quake III Arena via ioquake3 and other types of google open source projects. It gives you a set of challenging 3D navigation and some tasks for learning agents such as puzzle solving. Its main focus is to act as a testbed for the purpose of research in the fields of artificial intelligence, especially deep reinforcement the learning. Friendly advice I want to give is that it not an official project of google. If you will use this for your research and would like to cite the environment of deep mind lab, then I will suggest you cite the paper of deep mind Lab.
Firebase SDK
It is a platform for application development. This gives you so many tools for building, growing, and at the end monetizing your apps for using it for money. This Firebase SDK gives you permission to access all the features of Firebase in an intuitive and idiotic manner on several platforms. Many other components of Firebase are open source to deliver a higher level of transparency. This also helps you in getting access to enable the community development of GitHub.
Flutter
Flutter is a useful, free, and open-source UI framework for mobile that has been created by Google. It was released in the year 2017. If we talk specifically it will give you permission to make an application in just one codebase. This ultimately means that you don’t have to use different languages or creating applications for IOS and for android. You can make the application by using only one programming language. When you will use flutter you have to use Dart (mentioned above) in this.
Google Cloud
It is said as a set of physical utilities, such as computers and hard disk drives, and virtual resources, i.e. virtual machines. Each region is having its own data center location. These regions are Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. Every single region is having zones that are divided from each other within the zones. If you distribute your resources it will provide you several benefits. These benefits consist of redundancy in case of any failure and reduced latency by locating resource that is closer to your clients.
Data Lab
This can be defined as a useful and powerful interactive tool that has been created to explore, analyze, transform, and visualizing the data. This also helps in building machine learning models on any Google Cloud Platform. It gets operated on a computer engine and automatically gets connected to multiple cloud services very easily. This will help you in focusing on your data science tasks.
Fuchsia OS
This is a google open source project and a capability-based operating system. This project became well known by the user when the project has appeared on a self-hosted for GitHub in August 2016 and that too without any official announcements. In the year 2016 media somewhat revealed that Google is developing a new operating system named “Fuchsia”. This device was added to the ecosystem of Android in January 2019. Google had a talk about Fuchsia at the function of Google I/O 2019. On July 1, 2019, Google revealed an official website that will provide you the source code and also every single documentation about this operating system.
Google Web Toolkit
It is a combination of open-source tools. It gives permission to web developers for creating and then maintaining JavaScript front-end applications in Java. If we leave some of the native libraries then everything can be built on Java supporting platform with the help of the Google Web toolkit. It got its license under the rule of apache license 2.0. It gives encouragement to reusable approaches to common web development tasks named synchronous, remote procedure calls, history management, etc.
The first version of GWT was released on May 1, 2016. Google made the announcement about this at the conference of Java One in the year 2006.
Frontview
It is defined as a demo application that helps you in displaying the font with he uses of a free, libre, or open-source text rendering stack. Frontview is a small demo app that displays the content of the font file that it is having. It opens *.otf, *.ttc, *.otc, and *.pfb files. For the rendering of the text, the Front view uses the open-source libraries that are provided by Google.
Kritis
This is a google open source project that is also defined as a solution for the security of your software supply chain for the Kubernetes application. It gives encouragement to deploy time security policies by making the use of Google cloud container analysis API. This further uses Grafeas from the backend. It gives power to binary Authorization, a deploy-time security control that gives access to only trusted container images to Kubernetes Engine. It was licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes as a management system for clusters. This helps you in managing the containerized application across different hosts, providing the mechanisms for the purpose of deployment, maintenance of it, and it the end scaling of the applications. It divides the containers into groups that make the management and the discovery of an application into the logical unit very easy and clear.
It has been developed after years of experience at Google running production workloads at a scale with the use of the Borg system. This system consists of breeds of ideas and practices of the community. It was released by Google in the year 2014. Kubernetes was said to be a seed technology for the foundation of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in the year 2015. After that, it has been used in continuation.
Polymer
It is a google open source project that is defined as a library of tools. The library makes it easy to structure your web applications, building on Web components standard for giving you permission to build custom, and re-usable encapsulated elements on HTML. It doesn’t make the development of complicated new abstracts and some kind of magic. Polymer uses the available features of the Web platform in a straight forward way for the simplification of the creation of custom elements. This library is very modular so this can be used with other abstracts also or libraries that work with modern browsers.
Vitess
Vitess is a distributed database that makes the use of MySQL from the backend. If you use Vitess then the MySQL installations that are already existing can be turned into as scalable and sharded distributed databases while saving the advanced features of MySQL such as transactions or the SQL language. Sharding databased are supported in an application transparent manner. It analyzes the queries and automatically gives a path to the respective shard. The numbers of shards that can be scaled up or down via a sharding process with the minimum downtime.
Application drivers in this are available for different types of languages such as Java, PHP, Python, and Go.
WebRTC
This is a Google Open source project that helps you on enabling Real-Time Communications (RTC) in the browser, mobile platforms, and IoT devices. This is done by following some kind of protocols also. It gives you fundamental building blocks, including the audio and video processing, networking, and security, to build reliable, high-quality, communication applications.
V8 Engine
It is a JavaScript engine that is also having the capacity to run standalone, to be embedded into any application of C++. V8 engine first compiles the JavaScript into machine code before completing the process of execution. It also handles the memory allocation for objects, and garbage and ultimately collects the objects no longer needed. This move from the traditional techniques gives permission to JavaScript to run much faster than usual.
Pixel Visual Core Camera
This application was designed only for one purpose. It was designed for providing the developers of android an easy and simple way. This taught them how to enable Pixel Visual code in the camera application in Android for making the HDR+ process much faster. This is done with the use of Camera API 1 and 2. This pixel visual core is available in Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 3 phones.
Kuberflow
This google open-source project was completely dedicated to making the workflows of Machine learning on Kubernetes simple, portable, and scalable. Their goal was not to create any special other services but to give the present features in a straightforward manner for deploying the best operating system for Machine learning to various infrastructures. In short, if you are running Kubernetes then you will be able to run Kuberflow also.
Magenta
It can be defined as a research project that is being used for finding the role of Machine learning in the fields of creating music and art. Initially, this involves the development of new deep learning and also enforcing the learning algorithms for the generation of songs, images, drawings, and other types of materials. But it’s also an exploration in building smart tools and interfaces that allow artists and musicians to extend (not replace!) their processes using these models.
Magenta was started by some researchers and engineers from the Google Brain team but many others have contributed significantly to the project. We use TensorFlow and release our models and tools in open source on GitHub.
Nomulus
This is a Google open source project that is scalable, and a cloud-based platform for operating the top-level domains (TLDs). It is having the authorization for the TLDs that it is running. This means that it is having the responsibility of tracking domain name ownership and handling the registrations and renewals, availability checks, and WHOIS requests. The End-user registrants usually use an intermediate domain for registering the name that is acting on their behalf to interact with the registry.
Operations (formerly Stackdriver)
This is a Google open source project that provides you powerful monitoring, logging, and diagnostics. It also gives you insight into the health, performance, and availability of cloud-powered applications, for you to find and fix all the issues much faster. The operations agents and libraries are open source projects.
Many Google applications are using Operations features. Some other client-side projects like the Cloud SDK or Kubernetes Minikube are reporting errors to Operations Error Reporting.
Final words
I hope this article was helpful for you in finding the Google open-source projects and how they work. You also got to know how these Google Open source projects are going to help you with your work. You can also check out the list of Raspberry Pi OS available.
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