17 Google products that have been built for Developers

Google Developers

In my previous article, I talked about “How to learn the programming language you like?”.

So, this time we will make a difference. We will get to know about technology products. As my first approach to tech products, I would like to tell you about some Google products.

Google is an American multinational technology company that focuses on artificial intelligence, search engine, cloud computing, computer software, etc. It has been referred to as one of the world’s most valuable brands due to its market dominance, data collection, and technological advantages in the area of artificial intelligence. It is considered one of the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple, Meta (Facebook), and Microsoft usually considered as FAANG companies (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google).

So, let’s learn more information about 17 Google products that have been built for Developers.

17 Google products for Developers

So, I’ going to discuss Advantages of each and every product above, in this article

1. AdMob

Google is the No 1 player in the mobile advertising market. It was already the largest online advertising company when it acquired AdMob. AdMob makes earning revenue easy with in-app ads, actionable insights, and powerful, easy-to-use tools that grow mobile apps.

Google AdMob

Advantages

1. Earn more revenue with your apps
2. Guidance to Get started and improve your Mobile App
3. Featured resources

They provide a lot of guidance and resources. So, If you have mobile app ideas why don’t you build them and earn more revenue with your apps.

2. Analytics

Google Analytics is an analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic(collecting data for your website or app), currently as a platform inside the Google Marketing Platform. It provides statistics and basic analytical tools for search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing purposes.

Google Analytics

Advantages

1. Track & Provides Real-time Data Reports
2. Guidance and resources
3. Integration with other products

Google Analytics Report

Google Analytics provides a report like the above, and you can even customize and manage the report to get the best out of reports.

The report includes:

• Sessions and users
• Goal completions and conversions
• Channel performance
• Geo report etc.

So, It is time to track your product by Google Analytics or to build your product to track by Google Analytics.

3. Android

Android

You know, Android is the current leading OS in the market for smartphone operating systems for mobile devices. But, most of you might don’t know Android is not only for mobile phones, it supports tablet, watch, TV (Android TV), and even car (Android Auto). Android powers them all. It’s the operating system inside 2.5 billion active devices.

Android Products

Advantages

1. Wide range of devices to choose
2. Open-source platform (Android is open to everyone: developers, designers, and device makers.)
3. Support all Google services
4. Multitasking
5. Frequent OS updates

Android Studio

There is Android Studio also. Android Studio is the official integrated development environment for the Android operating system.

4. Business Messages

Google Business Messages let developers send messages to your brand or your brand’s locations through the pre-created agent. When a user searches and locates a brand that you manage, the results include a message button.

Google Business Messages

Advantages

1. Increase visibility to help customers with entry points
2. Authenticate with OAuth
3. Track user satisfaction
4. Guidance and training to start

I personally think that Google Business Messages will help you to engage with more customers and increase the sales and marketing of your business.

5. Exposure Notifications

Google and Apple jointly created the Exposure Notifications System out of a shared sense of responsibility to help governments and the global community fight against the corona pandemic through contact tracing.

Exposure Notifications

Exposure Notifications System

It will help your public health authority, alert you if you’ve been exposed to COVID-19. Using Exposure Notifications helps you protect your community, even if you’ve been vaccinated.

6. Firebase

Firebase is an app development platform that helps developers build and grow apps and games, backed by Google and trusted by millions of businesses around the world.

Firebase

Advantages

1. Easy Integrations

Firebase Integrations

2. Follow the user journey across devices

3. Add chat to your app

4. Process third-party payments without a server

You can use Firebase products together as a developer to solve complex challenges and optimize your app experience. You can personalize your onboarding flow, grow user engagement, or add new functionality with Firebase.

7. Flutter

Flutter transforms the app development process by building, testing, and deploying beautiful mobile, web, desktop, and embedded apps from a single codebase.

Flutter

Advantages

1. Stable & Reliable
2. Fast, Productive, and Flexible
3. Deploy to multiple devices from a single codebase

Flutter is an open-source framework by Google for building beautiful, natively compiled, multi-platform applications. With codelabs, YouTube videos, detailed docs, etc. find everything you need to get started with Flutter or continue your learning journey.

8. Google Ads

If you are a marketeer or developer Google Ads help you to increase website, and store visits and get more phone calls.

Google Ads

Advantages

1. Cost-effective
2. Help to increase brand awareness and sales
3. Custom reporting

Advertisements that Google gets like this will display on Developers’ products to make consumers aware.

9. Google Cloud

Google Cloud or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offered by Google, is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products.

Google Cloud

Advantages

1. Reduce cost
2. Increase operational agility
3. Capture new marketing opportunities

The Google Cloud console provides a web-based, graphical user interface that we can use as developers to manage our Google Cloud projects and resources. When we use the Cloud console, we either should create a new project or choose an existing project, and then use the resources that we create in the context of that project.

10. Google Maps Platform

Google Maps

I think the most popular product of Google after YouTube is Google Maps. It creates better experiences and improves operations with rich, detailed geospatial data, helpful mapping tools, and industry-leading reliability.

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Advantages

1. Rich geospatial data & global coverage
2. Real-time route optimization
3. Improved customer experiences
4. Interactive experiences & Simplified trip planning

Screenshot by the author

Also in 2022 Google I/O, CEO Sundar Pichai talked about Google Maps, with Immersive View, eco-routes, and more new features. These features look to be coming to both Android and iOS later this year.

11. Google Pay

Google Pay is a digital wallet platform and online payment system developed by Google to power in-app, online, and in-person contactless purchases on Android phones, tablets, or watches.

Google Pay

Advantages

1. Make payments easy
2. Give users fast, secure access
3. Featured resources

With Google Wallet, your customers can tap to pay everywhere Google Pay is accepted, shop with loyalty cards, board a flight, and more, all with just their Android phone.

12. Google Play

Google Play is its main platform for Developers with the ability to publish rapidly to over 2 billion active Android devices, Google Play helps developers to grow a global audience for their apps and games and earn revenue. To publish apps and games to Google Play, developers should have a Google Play Developer account worth US $25 (one-time registration fee).

Google Play

Advantages

1. Featured Resources
2. Ability to grow a global audience
3. Google Play handles financial transactions of in-app products or subscriptions
4. Monetize with ease

Read articles and industry thoughts from the Play team

13. Interactive Media Ads

Interactive Media Ads (IMA) is a suite of SDKs that make it easy to integrate multimedia ads into your video, audio, websites, apps, or gaming content with multimedia advertising.

Interactive Media Ads

Advantages

1. Additional platforms and devices to show Ads

There are two ways to implement IMA SDKs: Client-side, Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI)

14. Search

The most used Google product is its Google Search Engine. Meanwhile, Google Search Console is a free web service offered by Google that helps developers to monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot their website’s presence in Google Search results.

Google Search Console

Advantages

1. Monitor, debug, and optimize website with Search Console
2. Help to improve the website’s SEO
3. Offers tools and reports

Read and explore Google Search documentation to improve your site’s SEO

15. TensorFlow

TensorFlow is a free and open-source software library for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence that can be used across a range of tasks, especially focusing on the training and inference of deep neural networks. TensorFlow allows developers to build, deploy, and experiment easily.

TensorFlow

Advantages

1. Easy model building
2. Robust ML production anywhere
3. Powerful experimentation for research
4. Resources and community support

Read and explore more about TensorFlow

16. Web

Google Web is Google’s opinionated reference for building amazing web experiences. Google provides Discover tools that can help developers kickstart their development. This is the place you can see all Chrome DevTools, Extensions, Chrome Web Store, and Web on Android.

Web

Advantages

1. Fast, integrated, reliable, and engaging
2. Make life easier and improve the development of artistry(Chrome DevTools and Web Tools)
3. Useful guidance, Developer Newsletter, and analysis from web.dev for web developers
4. Resources to help developers optimize their web projects.

Just go to Google Web and learn more stuff.

17. YouTube

Youtube is one of the most popular products of Google. Simply, it is a video-sharing platform and social media for creators and developers as you all know. It is also kind of a search engine that has more than 2.6 billion active users, it is the second most visited website, right after Google itself.

YouTube

Advantages

1. Analytics & Reporting
2. Live streaming facility
3. API code samples and many more resources

Many people know only about the Main Youtube platform. But, there are 4 other platforms on Youtube as follows.

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YouTube Kids provides a more contained environment for kids to explore YouTube and makes it easier for parents and caregivers to guide their journey.

YouTube Music is a music service with official albums, singles, videos, remixes, live performances, and more for Android, iOS, and desktop. It’s all here.

YouTube TV is a streaming television service that offers live TV, on-demand video, and cloud-based DVR from more than 85 television networks.

YouTube VR turns every video on the platform into your own virtual reality experience and reimagines YouTube as a 3D world you can explore from the inside.

So, this is all details I have to tell you about Google’s 17 products that have been built for Developers.