I recently stumbled onto a collection of very cool, open-source APIs for OS X and the iPhone that some Google developers work on in their spare time. I’ve already mentioned Update Engine and Google Toolbox for Mac, so I thought it might be worthwhile to summarize the whole collection, too.
From the Google Mac Developer Playground homepage:
Tools & Demos
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Quick Search Box New! An experimental, open source search box that allows you to search data on your computer and across the web. |
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Earth Surfer New! Connect your Mac to a Nintendo Wii Balance Board to travel over Google Earth. |
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Calaboration Easily set up iCal to synchronize with Google Calender. |
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Vocito Quick and easy GrandCentral access from your Desktop. |
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Update Engine A flexible Mac OS X framework that can help developers keep their products up-to-date. |
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Top Draw Generate images using JavaScript. |
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Google Toolbox for Mac A collection of source and tools that may be of use to Mac and iPhone developers. |
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Precipitate Search your Google Docs and Bookmarks from Spotlight or Google Desktop. |
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Vidnik Record video segments using your iSight camera and upload them to YouTube. |
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Visigami An image search application and screen-saver that uses Google Images, Picasa, and Flickr. |
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AppMenuBoy Creates a hierarchical menu in the dock of all your applications. |
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CoverStory A nice user interface for analyzing code coverage (gcov) files on the Mac. |
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GData Write Objective-C applications that talk to Google’s services through GData APIs. |
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Statz Update your status across multiple IM and chat networks. |
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MacFUSE A mechanism that makes it possible to implement a fully functional file system in a user-space program on Mac OS X. |
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Quartz Composer Patches A collection of Quartz Composer patches for Leopard that work with the ambient light and motion sensors. |