libraries.md

Google & Chromium Ecosystem Libraries

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1. Core System & Utilities

• Cryptography

  • BoringSSL
  • OpenSSL
  • Secure Message (part of Tink)
  • Tink
  • UKey2

• Compression

  • Brotli
  • LZMA SDK
  • Snappy
  • Zstandard
  • zlib
  • pako (JS)
  • WOFF2

• Hashing

  • CityHash
  • FarmHash
  • xxHash
  • SMHasher
  • SuperFastHash

• Serialization

  • Protocol Buffers
  • FlatBuffers
  • jsoncpp
  • Tiny CBOR

• System Tools

  • libunwind
  • libcxx
  • newlib-extras
  • cpu_features
  • Perfetto

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2. Graphics & Rendering

• 2D/3D Engines

  • Skia / GitHub Mirror
  • ANGLE
  • SwiftShader
  • Dawn
  • Vulkan SDK
  • SPIR-V Tools

• Image Codecs

  • libjpeg-turbo
  • libpng
  • WebP
  • OpenJPEG
  • CrabbyAvif
  • FreeType

• Video Codecs

  • libvpx
  • OpenH264
  • FFmpeg
  • dav1d
  • Alliance for Open Media

• Fonts & Text

  • HarfBuzz
  • FreeType
  • OTS
  • Little CMS

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3. Networking & Protocols

• Protocols

  • gRPC
  • QUICHE
  • WebRTC
  • libsrtp
  • libjingle

• HTTP/Web

  • Chromium Networking
  • WebKit / GitHub Mirror
  • DevTools Frontend
  • CSP Evaluator

• Cloud/APIs

  • Google Cloud Storage Client
  • Firebase SDK
  • Play Services – Not Open Source, proprietary

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4. Android-Specific

• UI Frameworks

  • Jetpack Compose
  • Material Components
  • AppCompat
  • RecyclerView
  • ViewPager

• Architecture

  • Room
  • Lifecycle
  • Navigation
  • DataStore
  • WorkManager

• Media

  • ExoPlayer
  • Media3
  • CameraX

• AR/ML

  • ARCore
  • TensorFlow Lite
  • MediaPipe

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5. Web & JavaScript

• Engines

  • V8 / GitHub Mirror
  • JavaScriptCore
  • Acorn

• Libraries

  • jQuery
  • Redux
  • D3.js
  • CodeMirror
  • Marked
  • Polymer
  • Lit

• Tooling

  • Lighthouse
  • Web Vitals
  • Axe-Core

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6. Machine Learning & AI

• Frameworks

  • TensorFlow Lite
  • MediaPipe
  • SentencePiece

• Math

  • Eigen
  • gemmlowp
  • ruy
  • XNNPACK

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7. Platform-Specific

• Linux

  • Wayland
  • X11
  • libxcb
  • Mesa

• Windows

  • WTL
  • DirectX Headers

• Mac

  • Google Toolbox for Mac
  • PortAudio / GitHub Mirror

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8. Miscellaneous

• Accessibility

  • IAccessible2
  • ChromeVox
  • Braille Translation (Liblouis)

• Localization

  • ICU
  • Unicode CLDR
  • intl-messageformat

• Hardware

  • minigbm
  • libusbx
  • v4l-utils

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9. Google-Specific

• Chromium

  • PDFium
  • Crashpad
  • WebRTC
  • QUICHE

• Play Services

  • Proprietary: No public source available.

• Internal Tools

  • Guava
  • Dagger
  • AutoService

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10. Embedded & Low-Level

• Firmware

  • Fuchsia GN SDK
  • LLVM libc

• Drivers

  • Vulkan Loader
  • Volk

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