The Californian company Google has launched a new website known as Google Open Source. This web page refers to the support where all the open source projects made by the Mountain View company meet following the slogan “Bringing better technology to the world by promoting open source".
Free software and open source have represented the technical and organizational base of the search engine company, being the fundamental elements of everything they do. For this reason, it is decided to do the launch of this new website, where you will find all the open source projects that Google has carried out from the beginning, information on how they use it, launch it and support for Open Source. In addition, according to the website you can find more than 2.000 projects that use open source, and in this article we mention some interesting projects that are obtained in Google Open Source.
Prone error
This instrument designed by Google is used to detect errors in program code which are written in java. It is added to the language compiler and is capable of detecting bugs when compiling and is compatible with any variation of plugins for the specific use of the project.
Unlike the conventional language compiler that only detect errors in writing, with this project you can get more information, which helps today's developers to modify any faults faster that they can detect using the use of Error Prone.
end-to-end
The function that this extension for Chrome gives us is to help the person who uses it to encrypt, decrypt, digitally sign and check messages from the browser using the protocol OpenPGP.
Material components for iOS
This project has been created by engineers and interface designers of the Google company, which allows iOS developers to add design material in this type of system.
Oppia
It is an instrument used to share interactive education activities. This tool provides help to working groups that develop interactive online education activities on the web.
Zopfli, compression algorithm
The uniqueness that this project represents is that it is mainly open source. Despite the time it takes to compress, unlike Microsoft Edge, it adopted Brotli, it manages to achieve greater compression capacity, achieving an improvement in available space, less waiting time when loading a web page and data transmission much faster.
MOE (Make Open Easy)
It is used to synchronize, debug, and translate repositories in source code. Projects generally exist in two different forms, so it can be subjected to different causes. Hence it is much easier to use MOE, since it is able to keep the two repositories together, without the need for them to cross.
Tensorflow
Another interesting project that can be found in Google Open Source is Tensorflow. It represents a complete open source library in numerical automation through data flow charts. It is a project capable of determining what happens in an image, with an accuracy of 94%.
FontDiff
It is a tool intended for typographical fonts. When the text font is modified using this tool, a PDF is produced showing the font that was used prior to the change. This makes it easier to correct any changes and errors that may be produced by them.
crouton
Represents a way of chroot to Chrome OS. Chroot can be explained as a machine class, where the virtual operating system that has a separate file system and the binary system does not belong to the base operating system.