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Chrome for Android is an edition of Google Chrome released specifically for the Android operating system. On 7 February 2012, Google launched Google Chrome Beta for Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) devices, for certain countries. The first stable version of this browser was first released on June 27, 2012. Chrome 18.0.1026.311, released on September 26, 2012, was the first Chrome for Android capable of supporting devices based on Intel x86.

Google Classroom is a free educational platform for blended learning. It is part of the Google Apps for Education Suite, which includes Google Docs, Gmail and Google Calendar. The platform was launched on August 12, 2014. On June 29, 2015, Google announced a Classroom API and a share button for websites, allowing educational administrators and other developers to increase their use of Google Classroom. On March 15, 2017, Classroom was available for personal Google accounts, particularly for standard Gmail accounts. Conceived in its beginnings as a way to save paper, among its functions is to simplify and distribute tasks as well as evaluate content. It allows the creation of virtual classrooms within the same educational institution, facilitating work among members of the academic community. In addition, it serves as a link between teachers, parents and students speeding up all communication processes between them. There are Google Classroom mobile applications for both Android and iOS. Application development is independent, so not all functions are available for both platforms at the same time. With the application, teachers can, among other things, create classes, publish content to classes, communicate with students or view homework. Likewise, students and teachers can take photos or videos and attach them in the tasks, or there is also the possibility of adding them from other websites.

Google Drive is a file hosting service that was introduced by the American company Google on April 24, 2012. It is the replacement of Google Docs that has changed its URL, among other qualities. Each user has 15 gigabytes of free space to store their files, expandable through different payment plans. It is accessible through the website from computers and have applications for Android and iOS that allow editing documents and spreadsheets. With the release of Drive, Google unified storage available to a single user so that in those 15 GB messages are also saved email from Gmail and images Google+ exceeding 2048×2048 pixels. Google Docs allows mobile phone users to browse their Google Docs documents. Users can view and edit documents. There is a version of Google Docs for the iPhone that includes the functionality for viewing and editing presentations, along with an interface designed specifically for this device. There are certain limits when handling documents for each account. Text documents can have up to 500 kB plus 2 MB for embedded images. Each spreadsheet can have up to 10,000 rows, 256 columns, 100,000 cells and 40 sheets. Only up to 11 sheets can be opened at the same time. Only presentations of up to 10 MB can be imported.

Google Duo is a video chat developed by Google. The service is available on the Android and iOS platforms, as well as in the browser. Duo was announced at the Google I/O presentation on May 18, 2016 along with Google Allo, an application for instant messaging of text messages and images. Duo was launched in the United States on August 16, 2016 and around the world a few days later. When registering, the application is tied to the user's phone number. Google Duo is a must-have app on Google Pixel smartphones. Features - HD video at 720p. Very simple and intuitive interface. The application optimizes WebRTC and uses QUIC. Therefore, the application can work even with weak Internet. Also, optimization is additionally achieved due to the deterioration of video quality. Knock Knock function - allows the user to see who is calling him before he picks up the phone. This feature can be disabled in the settings. End-to-end encryption by default. Save mobile traffic. If it is not possible to connect to a Wi-Fi network, Duo will automatically reduce the transfer rate of mobile data to 1 Mbps. Google Assistant Support. Using phone numbers to allow Duo users to easily invite people from their contact list there. Automatically switch between Wi-Fi and mobile data.

Google Pay, formerly known as Pay with Google and Android Pay, is a platform developed by Google for use in mobile payment systems, offering users the ability to make payments with Android devices, tablets or smart watches. Android Pay uses near-field communication (NFC) to transmit information from the card, thus facilitating the transfer of funds to the collector. Replaces credit or chip of debit card, PIN or transaction Magnetic stripe card at the point of sale terminals to allow the user to load these into the Google Pay wallet. It is similar to contactless payment already used in many countries, with the addition of two-step verification. The service allows Android devices wirelessly to communicate with point-of-sale terminals that use a near-field communication antenna (NFC), card emulation system (HCE), and the security of the Android system. Android Pay takes advantage of physical security systems such as fingerprint identification. On devices without fingerprint identification, Android Pay is protected with a password by default. When the user makes a payment, Android Pay does not send the credit or debit card number attached to the payment. Instead it generates a virtual account number that represents the user's account information. This service keeps the customer's payment information private, sending a security code by time instead of the card or detailed user information.

Gmail is a free email service provided by the American company Google, Inc as of April 1, 2004. After more than five years, on July 7, 2009, the Gmail service, together with Google Calendar, Google Docs (now integrated in Google Drive), Hangouts and Google Buzz (closed), left their Beta quality and became considered finished products. In November 2012, Gmail managed to outperform Outlook (the most used email service to date) in terms of number of registered users globally. In June 2012, its number of users was estimated at about 425 million. In May 2014, Gmail exceeded one billion downloads on devices Android. The documents on the global surveillance network leaked in 2013 and 2014 suggest that Gmail is one of the intelligence agencies' objectives for the massive collection of data (see section: privacy violation). Gmail for mobile is a version of Google's Gmail mail service. It is a free service, developed to provide access to Gmail from mobile devices, as well as cell phones or smartphones. Gmail for mobile offers many of the features that Gmail has delivered to small mobile screens. Users have the ability to compose, read, archive, reply, forward, mark unread, add a star, add custom tags or junk emails. On September 22, 2009, Google brought to light Push, to support its Gmail mail service through Google Sync for iPhone and iPod Touch.

The Google Assistant is a virtual assistant developed with Artificial Intelligence by Google that is mainly available on smart mobile and home devices. Unlike Google Now, Google Assistant can participate in two-way conversations. The assistant initially debuted in May 2016 as part of the Google Allo messaging application, and its Google Home voice activated speaker. After a period of exclusivity on Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones, it began to be implemented on other Android devices in February 2017, including third-party smartphones and Android Wear, and was launched as a stand-alone application in the iOS operating system in may. Along with the announcement of a software development kitIn April 2017, the Assistant was expanded and expanded to support a wide variety of devices, including cars and smart appliances. The functionality of the Assistant can also be improved by external developers. Users interact primarily with Google Assistant through natural voice, although keyboard input is also supported. In the same way as Google Now, the Assistant can search the Internet, schedule events and alarms, adjust the hardware settings on the user's device and display information on the user's Google account. Google has also announced that the Assistant will be able to identify objects and collect visual information through the device's camera, and will accept the purchase of products and the sending of money, as well as the identification of songs. At the CES 2018, the first intelligent wizard screens (announced smart speakers with video screens), with a launch planned for mid 2018.

Google Calendar is an electronic calendar and calendar developed by Google. It allows you to synchronize it with Gmail contacts so that we can invite them and share events. It is available since April 13, 2006. Although users are not required to have a Gmail account, they must have a Google Account in order to use the software. Google Calendar along with Gmail, Google Docs and Google Talk. On July 7, 2009, they left their Beta quality and became finished products. Google Calendar supports the CalDAV protocol. This protocol allows us to synchronize our online calendar with the agenda we use regularly. Among the best known agendas that support this protocol are Microsoft Outlook, iCal, Lightning and Sunbird. Google has published an application (Google Calendar Sync), which is the one that manages this synchronization. A Google Agenda can be displayed on a website or on a mobile phone. The Google Calendar is the standard calendar application on Android phones. A calendar can be shared with other Google users. They can then display the appointments in their calendar, and when they get write permissions in the calendar they can also edit. A calendar can also be shared publicly as read-only, displayed on a website, or inserted by everyone into their own Google Calendar. A separate appointment can also be shared.

Google Earth is a computer program that shows a virtual globe that allows you to visualize multiple cartography, based on satellite photography. The program was created under the name of EarthViewer 3D by the company Keyhole Inc, funded by the Central Intelligence Agency. The company was bought by Google in 2004 absorbing the application. The Google Earth map consists of an overlay of images obtained by satellite images, aerial photographs, geographic information from GIS data models around the world and computer- created models. The program is available in several licenses, but the free version is the most popular, available for mobile devices, tablets and personal computers. The first version of Google Earth was released in 2005 and is currently available on PC for Windows, Mac and Linux. Google Earth is also available as a plugin to be viewed from the web browser. In 2013 Google Earth had become the most popular program to visualize cartography, with more than one billion downloads. Many users use the application to add their own data, making them available through various sources, such as the Bulletin Board Systems or blogs. Google Earth is capable of displaying different image layers above the base and is also a valid client for a Web Map Service. Google Earth supports three-dimensional geospatial data using the Keyhole Markup Language or .kml files.

Google Maps is an application server maps on the web belonging to Alphabet Inc. offers images of maps scrollable and photographs by satellite of the world and even the route between different locations or images at street level with Google Street View, conditions real-time traffic (Google Traffic) and a route calculator on foot, by car, bicycle (beta) and public transport and a GPS navigator, Google Maps Go. There is a desktop and application level variant called Google Earth that Alphabet Inc. also offers for free. In 2014, documents leaked by Edward Snowden revealed that Google Maps is part and victim of the global surveillance network operated by several Western intelligence agencies and technology companies. The (free) mobile version of Google Maps was launched on November 7, 2005. Google Maps is also used for various applications on the Google Android - smartphones for navigation, access to maps, Lattitude. Google Earth is also available on Android devices. Since April 2007 it is possible to create a personalized map with Google Maps. Here the user can insert lines, shapes, placemarks as well as photos and videos. These cards can then be shared with other people. Thanks to the easy application programming interface (api), many people have taken the opportunity to create a Google Maps website themselves.

Google News is an automated news aggregator and search engine that constantly tracks the information of the main online media. The Google News website, prepared by Google, is updated every 15 minutes and launched in beta in April 2002. There are more than 40 regional editions in various languages, including German, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Dutch, English, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian and Swedish. Each of these editions is specifically adapted to the readers of the respective countries. Articles are selected and classified by means of a computerized system that evaluates, among other things, the frequency and the sites where a news item appears. Consequently, the news is chosen independently of the ideology or political point of view, and the user can choose from a wide variety of perspectives on the same fact. The promotion of this site ensures neutrality in the selection of the news shown because there is no human intervention in it. The English version has more sections than the other versions, such as the local section and the "Editors' Picks" section. Spain's version has stopped working since 16 December 2014. In 2014 the mobile version was developed, which was included by default in Android Lollipop.

The Google search engine or Google web search engine or Google Search is a web search engine owned by Alphabet Inc., it is the most used search engine on the Web, receives hundreds of millions of queries every day through its different services. The main objective of the search engine Google is to search text on web pages instead of other data, was originally developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997. The Google search engine provides at least 22 special features beyond the original word. These include synonyms, weather forecasts, time zones, stock quotes, maps, earthquake data, movie billboards, airport information, start lists and sports results. There are special functions for numbers, including intervals (70..73), prices, temperatures, unit and currency conversions ("10.5 cm in inches"), calculations ("3 * 4 + sqrt (6) -pi / 2"), package tracking, patents, telephone area codes, and translation of displayed pages. The order of search results (ghits by Google hits) on Google results pages is based, in part, on a priority range called "PageRank". Google Search provides many options for custom search, using Boolean operations such as: exclusion ("-xx"), inclusion ("+ xx"), alternatives ("xx O yy") and wildcard ("x * x").

Google Sheets Is a spreadsheet program that is part of the free web-based software package provided by Google within Google Drive. The service also includes Google Docs and Google Slides, word processor and presentation software respectively. Google Sheets is available as a web app, a mobile app for Android, iOS, Windows, BlackBerry, as well as a desktop application in GoogleChromeOS. The application is compatible with Microsoft Excel file formats. The application allows users to create and edit files online when interacting with other users in real time. The edits are tracked by the user, and the edit history represents changes. The position of the editor stands out for the editor with a specific color and cursor, and the permission system regulates what users can do. Google Sheets is available as a web application supported in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge and Apple Safari web browsers. Users can access all spreadsheets, among other files, collectively through the Google Drive website. In June 2014, Google developed a custom website homepage for spreadsheets that contained only files created using spreadsheets. In 2014, Google launched a special mobile spreadsheet application for Android and iOS mobile operating systems. In 2015, the mobile spreadsheet website was updated with a "simpler, more even" interface, and although users can read spreadsheets through mobile websites, users trying to edit will be redirected to a mobile app to eliminate editing on the mobile network.

Google Slides is a presentation program included as part of a free web-based office software package provided by Google in its Google Drive service. The service also includes Google Docs and Google Sheets, a word processor and spreadsheet respectively. Google Slides are available as web applications, mobile applications for Android, iOS, Windows, BlackBerry and as applications on the desktop on Google ChromeOS. This application is compatible with the Microsoft PowerPoint file format.

Google Street View is a Google Maps and Google Earth feature that provides street-level panoramas (360 degrees of horizontal movement and 290 degrees of vertical movement), allowing users to view parts of selected cities and their surrounding metropolitan areas. It was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007. When the service was launched, only five US cities were included. Since then it has expanded to 31 European, 10 Latin American, 17 Asian, 5 African and Antarctic countries. You can navigate through these images using the arrow keys or using the mouse. In addition, in May 2009 a novelty of navigation was introduced in the application, based on the data provided by laser technology, which allows faster navigation along the route. For taking pictures, the weather, time and temperature are taken into account, so that even photographs are obtained. All photographs are always modified before their final publication, blurring faces and license plates, due to the internal privacy policies of the different countries in which the service is present. Google Street View was introduced on May 25, 2007 in the United States. The first images of Europe were published on July 2, 2008 with the tour of the Tour de France.

Google Text-to-Speech Engine is a screen reader application developed by Google for the Android operating system. Its apps empower you to read (speak) the text on the screen aloud. Languages currently supported are Bengali (Bangladesh), Cantonese (Hong Kong), Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan) Danish, Dutch, English (Australia), English (India), English (UK), English (US), Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (USA), Swedish, Thai Are in Turkish and Vietnamese. Text to Speech can be used by Google Translate to read books aloud by apps like Google Play Books. Some app developers have begun adapting and adjusting Android Auto apps to include Text to Speech like Hyundai in 2015. Applications like TextPlus and WhatsApp use In-Text Speech to read notifications aloud and provide voice response functionality. Version 3.0 added support for natural high-quality sounds. High quality voices now in English (U.S.) and Female (high quality) in English (United States) now voiced three new voices. Men, Women (high quality) and Men (high quality). These high quality sounds have been added to ensure that they are pronounced with higher quality pronunciation and natural intonations.

Google Translate is a multilingual system of automatic translation, developed and provided by Google, to translate text, voice, images or video in real time from one language to another. It offers web interface, as well as mobile interfaces for iOS and Android, and an API, which developers can use to build browser extensions, applications, and other softwares. The Google Translator has the ability to translate 103 languages at different levels, the system provides a free service and is used daily by more than 200 million people. Google incorporated its neuronal machine translation system in November 2016, a system that according to the company will improve the dynamic evolution of the Translator, since it will analyze the composition of the sentences taking into account a series of factors. The system learns over time and user queries, which improves the quality of its translations. For now, Google has added English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Turkish to this system. Google Translate is available as a free download application for users of the Android operating system. It works simply as the browser version, Google Translate for Android contains two main options: "SMS Translation" and "History". The application supports 90 languages and the voice input has the capacity to process 15 languages. It is available for devices with Android 2.1 and higher and can be downloaded by searching for "Google Translator" on Google Play. The application has the functionality, through which you can translate any language by simply focusing the text on the camera of the mobile device and also offers a conversation mode that uses Google's voice command and cloud storage to translate the dialogue between two people who speak different languages.

YouTube is a website and app of American origin dedicated to sharing videos. Presents a variety of clips from movies, TV shows and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogs and YouTube Gaming. People who create content for this platform are generally known as youtubers. It was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and in October 2006, was acquired by Google Inc. in exchange for 1,650 million dollars and now operates as one of its subsidiaries. It is the most used website of its kind on the internet. YouTube uses an online player based on HTML5, which it incorporated shortly after W3C introduced it and is supported by the most popular web browsers. In the past, your player worked with Adobe Flash, but this tool was discarded in 2016. Links to YouTube videos can also be inserted into blogs and personal electronic sites using APIs or by embedding certain HTML code. YouTube also renewed its mobile application appearance in August 2017. The YouTube video platform unveiled the new features of its mobile application, such as the new design, playback speeds, automatic viewing and full-screen options. In its official blog, the platform highlighted that it is evolving, so they have started a series of updates during the remainder of the year, with a new level of functionality and a constant look through mobile and desktop experiences.

Chrome Remote Desktop - a tool for remote administration, developed by Google, which allows the user to control computers through a proprietary protocol, unofficially called "Chromoting". This software works as an extension for the Google Chrome browser and is available for installation through the Chrome Web Store. Chrome Remote Desktop can work both in remote assistance mode, allowing the user to control another user's computer on demand (for example, to help solve a problem), and in remote control mode, when the user can control computers at any time (unattended access). In the first case, Windows, macOS, Android supported as remote platforms. In the case of remote control, as remote platforms, supports Windows, macOS and Linux. Chrome Remote Desktop supports curtain mode, allowing you to hide from the user the process of setting up a computer by a remote administrator, if necessary. VP8 used as a codec for compressing and transmitting desktop images.

Google Docs is a word processor that is part of the free web based office suite software offered by Google as part of its Google Drive service. This service includes Google Spreadsheets and Google presentations, for creating spreadsheets and presentations. Google Docs is available as a web app, a mobile app for Android, iOS, Windows, BlackBerry, and as a desktop application on Google's ChromeOS. The application is compatible with Microsoft Office file formats. The application allows users to create and edit files on the Internet, while collaborating with other users in real time. User text changes are tracked by edit history. The editor position is indicated by an editor-specific color and cursor. The permit system regulates what users can do. The updates introduced features using machine learning, including "Explore", offering search results based on document content and "Action items", allowing users to assign tasks to other users. The application automatically saves the changes during typing, so no separate user action is required. All change history is retained, so older versions can be revoked by date and user. It is compatible with Microsoft Office files. The service Google Drive, except from the Google Docs, includes the Google Sheets and Google Slides, which are applications spreadsheet (spreadsheet) and presentation (presentation).