Google Developers (previously Google Code) ,

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s (APIs), and technical resources. The site contains documentation on using Google developer tools and APIs—including discussion groups and blogs for developers using Google's developer products. There are APIs offered for almost all of Google's popular consumer products, like

Google Maps Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panorama, interactive panoramic views of streets (Google Street View, Street View ...

YouTube YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in ...

Google Apps Google Workspace (formerly G Suite, formerly Google Apps) is a collection of cloud computing, Productivity software, productivity and Collaborative software, collaboration tools, software and products developed and marketed by Google. It con ...

, and others. The site also features a variety of developer products and tools built specifically for developers.

Google App Engine Google App Engine (also referred to as GAE or App Engine) is a cloud computing platform used as a service for developing and hosting web applications. Applications are sandboxed and run across multiple Google-managed servers. GAE supports aut ...

is a hosting service for web apps. Project Hosting gives users version control for

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code.

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(GWT) allows developers to create

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applications in the

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.(All languages) The site contains reference information for community based developer products that Google is involved with like Android from the

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and OpenSocial from the OpenSocial Foundation.

Google APIs

Google offers a variety of APIs, mostly

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s for web developers. The APIs are based on popular Google consumer products, including

Google Earth Google Earth is a web mapping, web and computer program created by Google that renders a 3D computer graphics, 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery. The program maps the Earth by superimposition, superimposing satelli ...

AdSense Google AdSense is a program run by Google through which website publishers in the Google Network of content sites serve text, images, video, or interactive media advertisements that are targeted to the site content and audience. These adver ...

Adwords Google Ads, formerly known as Google Adwords, is an online advertising platform developed by Google, where advertisers bid to display brief advertisements, service offerings, product listings, and videos to web users. It can place ads in the res ...

and

Google Data APIs

The Google Data APIs allow programmers to create applications that read and write data from Google services. Currently, these include APIs for

Google Analytics Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic and also mobile app traffic and events, currently as a platform inside the Google Marketing Platform brand. Google launched the service in N ...

Blogger A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries also known as posts. Posts are typically displayed in Reverse chronology, reverse chronologic ...

, Google Base,

Google Book Search Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical charac ...

, Google Calendar, Google Code Search,

, Google Spreadsheets and

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Ajax APIs

Google's Ajax APIs let a developer implement rich, dynamic websites entirely in

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and HTML. A developer can create a map to a site, a dynamic search box, or download feeds with just a few lines of javascript.

Ads APIs

The

and

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APIs, based on the

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data exchange standard, allow developers to integrate their own applications with these Google services. The AdSense

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allows owners of websites and

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s to manage AdSense sign-up, content and reporting, while the AdWords API gives AdWords customers programmatic access to their AdWords accounts and campaigns.

Developer tools and open-source projects

App Engine

lets developers run web applications on Google Cloud. Google App Engine supports apps written in several programming languages. With App Engine's Java runtime environment, one can build their app using standard Java technologies, including the

JVM A Java virtual machine (JVM) is a virtual machine that enables a computer to run Java programs as well as programs written in other languages that are also compiled to Java bytecode. The JVM is detailed by a specification that formally descri ...

, Java servlets, and the Java programming language—or any other language using a JVM-based interpreter or compiler, such as JavaScript or Ruby. App Engine also features a dedicated Python runtime environment, which includes a fast Python interpreter and the Python standard library.

Google Plugin for Eclipse

Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE) is a set of software development tools that enables

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developers to design, build, optimize, and deploy

cloud computing Cloud computing is "a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service provisioning and administration on-demand," according to International Organization for ...

applications. GPE assists developers in creating complex user interfaces, generating

code using the

, optimizing performance with Speed Tracer, and deploying applications to

. GPE installs into the

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integrated development environment (IDE) using the extensible plugin system. GPE is available under the Google terms of service license.

Google Web Toolkit

The

(GWT) is an open source toolkit allowing developers to create

applications in the

. GWT supports rapid client–server

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and

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in any Java IDE. In a subsequent deployment step, the GWT compiler translates a working Java application into equivalent

that programmatically manipulates a web browser's

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DOM using

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techniques. GWT emphasizes reusable, efficient solutions to recurring Ajax challenges, namely asynchronous remote procedure calls, history management, bookmarking, and cross-browser portability. It is released under the

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version 2.0.

OR-Tools

Google OR-Tools provides programming language wrappers for

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tools such as optimisation and constraint solving.

Google Code

Google previously ran a project hosting service called Google Code that provided

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offering

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Mercurial Mercurial is a distributed revision control tool for software developers. It is supported on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and other Unix-like systems, such as FreeBSD and macOS. Mercurial's major design goals include high performance and scalabi ...

and

Git Git () is a distributed version control system that tracks versions of files. It is often used to control source code by programmers who are developing software collaboratively. Design goals of Git include speed, data integrity, and suppor ...

(transparently implemented using

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as storage), an issue tracker, and a wiki for documentation. The service was available and free for all OSI-approved Open Source projects (as of 2010, it was strongly recommended but no longer required to use one of the nine well-known open source licenses:

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Artistic Art is a diverse range of culture, cultural activity centered around works of art, ''works'' utilizing Creativity, creative or imagination, imaginative talents, which are expected to evoke a worthwhile experience, generally through an express ...

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LGPL The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free-software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The license allows developers and companies to use and integrate a software component released under the LGPL into their own ...

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, MPL and EPL). The site limited the number of projects one person could have to 25. Additionally, there was a limit on the number of projects that could be created in one day, a 200 MB default upload file size limit, which could be raised, and a 5 GB per-project total size limit. The service provided a file download feature, but in May 2013 the creation of new downloads was disabled, with plans to disable it altogether on January 14, 2014. In March 2015, Google announced that it would be closing down Google Code on January 15, 2016. All projects on the site entered read-only mode on August 24, 2015, with the exception of certain Google-owned projects including Android and Chrome. Residents of countries on the United States

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sanction list, including

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and

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, were prohibited from posting to or accessing Google Code.

Gears

Gears was

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software offered by

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to enable

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access to services that normally only work

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. It installed a database engine, based on

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, on the client system to cache data locally. Gears-enabled pages used data from this local cache rather than from the online service. Using Gears, a web application may periodically synchronize the data in the local cache with the online service. If a network connection is not available, the synchronization is deferred until a network connection is established. Thus Gears enabled web applications to work even though access to the network service is not present. Google announced the end of Gears development on March 11, 2011, citing a shift of focus from Gears to

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Google developer events

Google I/O Google I/O, or simply I/O, is an annual developer conference held by Google in Mountain View, California. The name "I/O" is taken from the number googol, with the "I" representing the first digit "1" in a googol and the "O" representing the s ...

is Google's largest developer event, which is usually held in May at the Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View. *

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is a mentoring program to find students for open source projects. In 2016, the program received nearly 18,980 applications. * Google Code Jam is an international programming competition.

Google Developer Groups

Google Developer Groups (GDGs) are communities of developers who are interested in Google's developer technology products and platforms. A GDG can take many forms—from just a few people getting together, to large gatherings with demos and tech talks, to events like code sprints and hackathons. As of June 2020, there are currently 1000+ GDGs worldwide. DevFest is one of these events.

References

External links

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