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libjpeg-turbo
SIMD-accelerated libjpeg-compatible JPEG codec library
libjpeg-turbo is a JPEG image codec that uses SIMD instructions (MMX, SSE2, NEON, AltiVec) to accelerate baseline JPEG compression and decompression on x86, x86-64, ARM, and PowerPC systems. On such systems, libjpeg-turbo is generally 2-6x as fast as libjpeg, all else being equal. On other types of systems, libjpeg-turbo can still outperform libjpeg by a significant amount, by virtue of its highly-optimized Huffman coding routines. In many cases, the performance of libjpeg-turbo rivals that of proprietary high-speed JPEG codecs. libjpeg-turbo implements both the traditional libjpeg API as well as the less powerful but more straightforward TurboJPEG API. libjpeg-turbo also features colorspace extensions that allow it to compress from/decompress to 32-bit and big-endian pixel buffers (RGBX, XBGR, etc.), as well as a full-featured Java interface. -
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libusb
A cross-platform library that gives apps easy access to USB devices
Library to enable user space application programs to communicate with USB devices -
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m3u
Live Source
The m3u project is a personal collection and integration of IPTV playlist sources, maintained as a hobby with casual updates. It aggregates streaming sources into .m3u files that can be subscribed to directly in various media players across platforms. The repository provides both simplified and full versions of playlist files, including dedicated lists for live streams and customizable options for users who want personalized M3U configurations. It emphasizes accessibility by offering multiple subscription addresses and supporting IPv6 sources. The project also suggests compatible software players for iOS, Android, Windows, and smart TVs, ensuring that users can easily set up and play live streams. While updates are “as time allows,” the repository has become a popular community-driven resource for IPTV enthusiasts who want quick access to organized streaming content. -
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raylib
A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
raylib is highly inspired by Borland BGI graphics lib and by XNA framework. Do you want to see all functions available in raylib? Check raylib cheatsheet. raylib is a programming library to enjoy videogames programming; no fancy interface, no visual helpers, no auto-debugging, just coding in the most pure spartan-programmers way. raylib has received several recognitions in the last years and many people have written about the library. Here there are the main awards received from Google and Epic Games. raylib supports multiple target platforms, it has been tested in the following platforms but, technically, any platform that supports C language and OpenGL graphics is valid for raylib or can be very easily ported to. raylib can be combined with several extra libraries for additional functionality, some of those libraries are already used internally while others are provided for user integration, most of these libraries are single-file header-only with no external dependencies. -
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ZXing
Barcode scanning library for Java, Android
ZXing or “Zebra Crossing” is an open source multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library that’s been implemented in Java, and also comes with ports to other languages. It currently supports the following formats: UPC-A and UPC-E EAN-8 and EAN-13 Code 39 Code 93 Code 128 ITF Codabar RSS-14 (all variants) RSS Expanded (most variants) QR Code Data Matrix Aztec ('beta' quality) PDF 417 ('alpha' quality) MaxiCode ZXing is made up of several modules, including a core image decoding library, JavaSE-specific client code, and Android client Barcode Scanner. It is the basis of many other third-party open source projects. -
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FreeRDP
FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol library and clients
FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license. Enjoy the freedom of using your software wherever you want, the way you want it, in a world where interoperability can finally liberate your computing experience. The nightly builds are installed into /opt/freerdp-nightly and can be installed in parallel with the distributions regular freerdp package. Network tracing of RDP can be quite a challenge due to a number of factors such as encryption, compression, and the fact that these protocol features cannot always be disabled or worked around. One of the easiest way of decrypting RDP traffic is to configure the server with a self-signed certificate for which the private key is known, and then use this certificate with a network tracing tool to automatically decrypt the packets. -
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PiliPlus
PiliPlus
PiliPlus is an open-source, third-party mobile client oriented around browsing and watching online video content with a focus on a smooth, feature-rich viewing experience. It typically aggregates feeds, categories, and search into a unified interface that makes discovery straightforward for casual use as well as power users. The player experience emphasizes responsive controls, on-screen comments (danmaku) or subtitles where supported, and options for quality selection and caching for offline viewing. Account-centric features such as history, favorites, and following creators are commonly integrated to keep the experience personal and portable across sessions. The project structure favors modularity so that network requests, parsing, and presentation layers remain separable and testable. Its community-driven approach encourages rapid iteration on UI details and playback features while maintaining a familiar, mobile-native feel. -
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armorpaint
3D PBR Texture Painting Software
ArmorPaint is stand-alone software designed for physically-based texture painting. Drag & drop your 3D models and start painting. Receive instant visual feedback in the viewport as you paint. Work fast with the convenience of nodes. Paint with fully procedural materials. Build fill layers with material nodes. Use brush nodes to create patterns and procedural brushes. ArmorPaint is designed from scratch to run completely on the GPU. This results in a smooth 4K painting experience on medium-power integrated hardware. Up to 16K texture painting is seamless using a high-end graphics card. Ray-traced baking, painting effects and viewport rendering feature running on Direct3D12 and Vulkan are in progress. ArmorPaint is powered by an in-house 3D rendering engine to achieve the best painting experience. -
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OpenH264
Open Source H.264 Codec
Cisco has taken their H.264 implementation and open-sourced it under BSD license terms. Development and maintenance will be overseen by a board from the industry and the open-source community. Furthermore, we have provided a binary form suitable for inclusion in applications across a number of different operating systems and made this binary module available for download from the Internet. We will not pass on our MPEG-LA licensing costs for this module, and based on the current licensing environment, this will effectively make H.264 free for use on supported platforms. OpenH264 is a codec library which supports H.264 encoding and decoding. It is suitable for use in real-time applications such as WebRTC. Constrained Baseline Profile up to Level 5.2 (Max frame size is 36864 macro-blocks). Arbitrary resolution, not constrained to multiples of 16x16. Rate control with adaptive quantization, or constant quantization. -
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libimobiledevice
A cross-platform protocol library to communicate with iOS devices
libimobiledevice is a cross-platform software library that talks the protocols to interact with iOS devices. Unlike other projects, it does not depend on using any existing proprietary libraries and does not require jailbreaking. Access filesystem of a device, access documents of file sharing apps, retrieve information about a device and modify various settings, backup and restore the device in a native way compatible with iTunes. Manage app icons arrangement on the device, install, remove, list and basically manage apps. Activate a device using official servers, manage contacts, calendars, notes and bookmarks, retrieve and remove crashreports. Retrieve various diagnostics information, establish a debug connection for app debugging, mount filesystem images, forward device notifications, manage device provisioning. Take screenshots from the device screen (requires mounted developer image). Simulate changed geolocation of the device (requires mounted developer image). -
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Kivy
Innovative user interfaces made easy
Kivy is an open source, cross-platform UI framework that lets you develop applications that make use of innovative, multi-touch user interfaces. Written in Python with a graphics engine built over OpenGL ES 2, Kivy supports various input devices and protocols, and gives you access to over 20 widgets that are all highly extensible and have built-in multi-touch support. You can run the same codebase on Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS. Kivy is 100% free and open source with a professionally developed and used toolkit, as well as a stable framework and well-documented API, so you can be confident in using it in a commercial product. -
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Extended Module Player
A multi-format module player and library
libxmp is a library that renders module files to PCM data. xmp is a module player for Unix-like systems, based on libxmp, that plays over 90 mainstream and obscure module formats from Amiga, Atari, Acorn, Apple IIgs and PC, including Protracker (MOD), Scream Tracker 3 (S3M), Fast Tracker II (XM) and Impulse Tracker (IT) files. -
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Buildozer
Generic Python packager for Android and iOS
Buildozer is a tool that aim to package mobiles application easily. It automates the entire build process, download the prerequisites like python-for-android, Android SDK, NDK, etc. Buildozer manages a file named buildozer.spec in your application directory, describing your application requirements and settings such as title, icon, included modules, etc. It will use the specification file to create a package for Android, iOS, and more. The goal is to have one "buildozer.spec" file in your app directory, describing your application requirements and settings such as title, icon, included modules etc. Buildozer will use that spec to create a package for Android, iOS, Windows, OSX and/or Linux. -
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ncnn
High-performance neural network inference framework for mobile
ncnn is a high-performance neural network inference computing framework designed specifically for mobile platforms. It brings artificial intelligence right at your fingertips with no third-party dependencies, and speeds faster than all other known open source frameworks for mobile phone cpu. ncnn allows developers to easily deploy deep learning algorithm models to the mobile platform and create intelligent APPs. It is cross-platform and supports most commonly used CNN networks, including Classical CNN (VGG AlexNet GoogleNet Inception), Face Detection (MTCNN RetinaFace), Segmentation (FCN PSPNet UNet YOLACT), and more. ncnn is currently being used in a number of Tencent applications, namely: QQ, Qzone, WeChat, and Pitu. -
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EMV NFC Paycard Enrollment
A Java library used to read and extract data from NFC EMV credit cards
Java library used to read and extract public data from NFC EMV credit cards. -
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QtAV
A multimedia framework based on Qt and FFmpeg
QtAV is a cross-platform and high performance multimedia playback framework based on Qt and FFmpeg. Features: timeline preview, gpu decoding etc -
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Expo
An open-source platform for making universal native apps with React
Expo is an open source framework and platform for creating universal React applications that run on Android, iOS, and the web. It includes a set of tools, services, universal runtime and libraries that let you develop, deploy and iterate on Android, iOS, and the web with the same JavaScript/TypeScript codebase. Expo is where client software is developed, and contains the client apps, modules, templates and more; while the Expo development tools are contained in the Expo CLI repository. Try Expo in the browser here: https://snack.expo.io/ -
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Shaderc
A collection of tools, libraries, and tests for Vulkan shader
Shaderc is a collection of tools and libraries for compiling shaders—small programs that run on GPUs—into SPIR-V, the intermediate representation used by the Vulkan graphics API. It provides both a command-line tool (glslc) and a C/C++ library (libshaderc) that wrap the functionality of glslang (the Khronos reference compiler for GLSL) and SPIRV-Tools to deliver a modern, scriptable, and efficient shader compilation workflow. The glslc compiler offers a GCC/Clang-like interface for building GLSL and HLSL shaders, making it easy to integrate into existing build systems. Meanwhile, libshaderc exposes a stable API that allows developers to programmatically compile shader strings into SPIR-V modules within graphics engines and tools. Shaderc supports advanced features such as file inclusion (#include), concurrency, and cross-platform builds, and it maintains backward compatibility for long-term projects. -
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Leaflet
Open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
Leaflet is a leading open source JavaScript library for creating interactive, mobile-friendly maps. Leaflet is light at just about 38 KB, but is already fully equipped with all the mapping features you could need. Leaflet is simple but efficient. It doesn’t try to do everything for everybody, rather it focuses on making the basic things work perfectly. It comes ready with exceptional layering tools, customization features such as pure CSS3 popups and controls, map controls and more right out of the box, and works on all major desktop and mobile platforms. Leaflet also comes with a range of interaction features, and can be extended with an abundance of great plugins. -
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stb
stb single-file public domain libraries for C/C++
stb is an open source collection of single-file C libraries created by Sean Barrett (nothings) for graphics, image loading, and utility functions. The repository provides lightweight, public domain libraries that can be easily integrated into projects without external dependencies or complex build processes. Popular components include stb_image.h for image loading, stb_image_write.h for writing images, and stb_truetype.h for font rendering. These libraries are widely used in game development, graphics engines, and multimedia applications due to their simplicity and portability. The project emphasizes ease of use, minimalism, and performance while avoiding bloated frameworks. Maintained and supported by the open source community, stb has become a standard toolkit for C and C++ developers working with images and graphics. -
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WebRTC Android
webrtc VideoCall VideoConference
WebRTC Android is a sample project that showcases how to implement real-time peer-to-peer communication (audio, video, and data) on Android using WebRTC. It demonstrates a complete pipeline—from signaling and connection setup to media capture and transmission—making it an excellent reference for developers looking to integrate WebRTC into their mobile apps. The project includes UI components and handles network state changes, codec configuration, and ICE negotiation to provide a robust base for real-world applications. -
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spdlog
Fast C++ logging library
spdlog is a header only library. Just copy the files under include to your build tree and use a C++11 compiler. It provides a python like formatting API using the bundled fmt lib. spdlog takes the "include what you need" approach, your code should include the features that actually needed. For example, if you only need rotating logger, you need to include "spdlog/sinks/rotating_file_sink.h". spdlog provides various log targets, which are, rotating log files, daily log files, console logging (colors supported), syslog, Windows event log, and Windows debugger (OutputDebugString(..)). Easily extendable with custom log targets. Log filtering, log levels can be modified in runtime as well as in compile time. Support for loading log levels from argv or from environment var. Backtrace support, store debug messages in a ring buffer and display later on demand. -
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Kotlin Wrappers
Kotlin wrappers for popular JavaScript libraries
This repository hosts a number of Kotlin wrappers for popular JavaScript libraries. To learn more please refer to the READMEs of individual modules. Artifacts are published to Maven Central, see the corresponding README files for package coordinates. All packages require JDK 8 to be installed. -
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LeakCanary
A memory leak detection library for Android
LeakCanary is a reliable memory leak detection library for Android. It effectively detects leaks and narrows down the cause of each leak through its in-depth knowledge of the internals of the Android Framework. This helps developers avoid and dramatically reduce OutOfMemoryError (OOM) crashes. A memory leak is a programming error that can cause an OutOfMemoryError crash. It’s often caused by bugs related to the lifecycle of objects, and can occur fairly often in Android applications. LeakCanary helps to find and fix those leaks during development so you never have to experience another OOM crash. -
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FlatBuffers
Memory Efficient Serialization Library
FlatBuffers is an open source, cross-platform serialization library designed for maximum memory efficiency. Originally created at Google for game development and other performance-critical apps, FlatBuffers has the unique ability of allowing you to directly access serialized data without having to parse or unpack beforehand. Since the only memory needed to access your data is that of the buffer, it is also very memory efficient and fast. FlatBuffers supports Windows, MacOS, Linux and Android, as well as any other operating systems with a recent C++ compiler. It supports a great number of programming languages, including C++, C#, C, Go, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, Lobster, Lua, TypeScript, PHP and many others in progress.
