17 Google products that have been built for Developers (Part 1)

Santhusha Janana Mudannayaka
6 min readMay 21, 2022

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Google Analytics

Advantages

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

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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.

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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
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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