17 Google products that have been built for Developers (Part 2)

Santhusha Janana Mudannayaka
The Beginner’s Guide
5 min readMay 24, 2022

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Google Developers

In my previous article, I brought you “17 Google products that have been built for Developers (Part 1)”.

So, In this article, I would like to continue that article by bringing you part 2 of that. I would like to tell you more information about other Google products that have been built for Developers.

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17 Google products for Developers — screenshot by the author

I’m going to discuss Advantages of each and every product above, in this article as well.

10. Google Maps Platform

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

All YouTube platforms
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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.

Explore and research to learn more…

So, there are 17 Google products for Developers that Google listed on their Products page. You can use this link to learn & explore more things about Google products for Developers.

And also don’t forget to read Part 1 of this article.

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Santhusha Janana Mudannayaka
The Beginner’s Guide

Engineering Undergraduate at University of Moratuwa | Tech & Startup Enthusiast | Writer | Volunteer