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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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libsdl-android
SDL library for Android, including several games.
Port of SDL library to Android mobile platform. There are also several games inside the repository, along with their sources and build files. Both SDL 1.2 and 1.3/2.0 versions are supported (1.3/2.0 support is experimental) Sources are at https://github.com/pelya/commandergenius -
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OpenGApps
OpenGApps daily releases
The Open GApps Project is an open-source initiative that automates the creation of up-to-date Google Apps packages for Android devices. It provides pre-built packages that are compatible with all major Android versions and hardware platforms. Open GApps packages are DPI-optimized, ensuring better performance and consistency across different screen densities. The project updates Google Apps frequently, with new builds generated nightly when updates are available. Strong compression keeps downloads relatively small, even for full-featured packages. The installer checks device compatibility before making changes to prevent installation issues. Open GApps offers multiple package options, ranging from full Google app bundles to lightweight, minimalist configurations. -
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Free Pascal Compiler
Free 32/64/16-bit multi-platform Pascal and Object Pascal compiler
A 32/64/16-bit Pascal compiler for Win32/64/CE, Linux, Mac OS X/iOS, Android, FreeBSD, OS/2, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo NDS and DOS; semantically compatible with Delphi, Borland Pascal and Mac Pascal (partially) with extra features, e.g. operator overloading. -
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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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LiteGapps
https://ps2bios.dev/
LiteGapps is a custom Google Apps on the Android operating system, an open source project that focuses on small, efficient, and comprehensive. https://ps2bios.dev -
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GmsCore
Free implementation of Play Services
microG GmsCore is a FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) framework to allow applications designed for Google Play Services to run on systems, where Play Services is not available. The linux-based open-source mobile operating system Android is not only the most popular mobile operating system in the world, it’s also on the way to becoming a proprietary operating system. How is that? While the core operating system is still released as part of the Android Open Source Project, the majority of core apps are not. It gets worse: More and more libraries and APIs are only available on phones that run various Google apps pre-installed, effectively locking third-party apps to the Google ecosystem. For these reasons Android is described as being a “look but don’t touch” kind of open. At this point, several popular open-source applications already require some of Google’s proprietary libraries to be installed. -
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EhViewer
EhViewer overhauled with Material Design 3, Jetpack Compose and more
EhViewer fork is dedicated to lightweight and high-performance. -
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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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Skiko
Kotlin Multiplatform bindings to Skia
Skiko is an open-source graphics library from JetBrains that provides lightweight, cross-platform bindings for the Skia graphics engine tailored specifically for Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose applications. It serves as the low-level rendering backbone for Kotlin UI frameworks like Compose for Desktop and Compose for Web, enabling smooth, GPU-accelerated 2D graphics across Windows, macOS, Linux, and other supported targets without writing native code. Skiko abstracts away platform-specific rendering details while exposing Skia’s powerful features such as high-quality text shaping, image filters, path operations, and hardware accelerated canvases, making it ideal for building rich UI components, animations, games, or custom drawing surfaces. By leveraging Skia’s proven performance and cross-platform consistency, Skiko helps developers write a single graphics pipeline that behaves predictably across environments, simplifying maintenance and reducing platform fragmentation. -
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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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Apktool
A tool for reverse engineering Android apk files
A tool for reverse engineering 3rd party, closed, binary Android apps. It can decode resources to nearly original form and rebuild them after making some modifications. It also makes working with an app easier because of the project like file structure and automation of some repetitive tasks like building apk, etc. It is NOT intended for piracy and other non-legal uses. It could be used for localizing, adding some features or support for custom platforms, analyzing applications and much more. The decode option on Apktool can be invoked either from d or decode. In order to run a rebuilt application. You must resign the application. Android documentation can help with this. As you probably know, Android apps utilize code and resources that are found on the Android OS itself. These are known as framework resources and Apktool relies on these to properly decode and build apks. -
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WenQuanYi (Spring of Letters)
Crowd-sourcing CJK font project
This project aims to develop the most complete, standard compliant, high-quality Chinese (and CJKV) fonts and resources, including bitmap and outline fonts of various styles. We also develop web-based tools to facilitate online font-dev collaborations. -
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Irrlicht Engine
3D Engine c++
The Irrlicht Engine is an open source high performance realtime 3D engine written and usable in C++. It is completely cross-platform, using D3D, OpenGL and its own software renderers. -
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frida
Dynamic instrumentation toolkit for developers
Dynamic instrumentation toolkit for developers, reverse-engineers, and security researchers. Inject your own scripts into black box processes. Hook any function, spy on crypto APIs or trace private application code, no source code needed. Edit, hit save, and instantly see the results. All without compilation steps or program restarts. Works on Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, iOS, Android, and QNX. Install the Node.js bindings from npm, grab a Python package from PyPI, or use Frida through its Swift bindings, .NET bindings, Qt/Qml bindings, or C API. Frida is and will always be free software (free as in freedom). We want to empower the next generation of developer tools, and help other free software developers achieve interoperability through reverse engineering. We are proud that NowSecure is using Frida to do fast, deep analysis of mobile apps at scale. Frida has a comprehensive test-suite and has gone through years of rigorous testing across a broad range of use-cases. -
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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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Kotlin
The Kotlin programming language
It is an open-source, statically typed programming language supported and developed by JetBrains and open-source contributors. Support for multiplatform programming is one of Kotlin’s key benefits. It reduces time spent writing and maintaining the same code for different platforms while retaining the flexibility and benefits of native programming. Kotlin plugin is intended to work with several recent versions of IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio. Each platform is allowed to have a different set of features and might provide a slightly different API. Instead of using several parallel Git branches, the project stores everything in a single branch, but files may have counterparts with version extensions (*.as32, *.172, *.181). The primary file is expected to be replaced with its counterpart when targeting a non-default platform. -
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Gradle
Adaptable, fast automation for all
Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development. If you are building, testing, publishing, and deploying software on any platform, Gradle offers a flexible model that can support the entire development lifecycle from compiling and packaging code to publishing web sites. Gradle has been designed to support build automation across multiple languages and platforms including Java, Scala, Android, Kotlin, C/C++, and Groovy, and is closely integrated with development tools and continuous integration servers including Eclipse, IntelliJ, and Jenkins. From mobile apps to microservices, from small startups to big enterprises, Gradle helps teams build, automate and deliver better software, faster. Write in Java, C++, Python or your language of choice. Package for deployment on any platform. Go monorepo or multi-repo. And rely on Gradle's unparalleled versatility to build it all. -
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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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LSPosed
LSPosed Framework
LSPosed is a modern and actively maintained implementation of the Xposed Framework, focused on improved security, stability, and compatibility with Android 8.1 and above. It enables developers and power users to dynamically modify the behavior of apps and the Android system at runtime without modifying APKs or flashing ROMs. LSPosed runs in a more secure environment with support for scope control and better integration with Magisk for systemless module management. -
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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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MediaPipe
Cross-platform, customizable ML solutions for live and streaming media
MediaPipe offers open-source cross-platform, customizable ML solutions for live and streaming media. Provides segmentation masks for prominent humans in the scene. MediaPipe Face Mesh is a face geometry solution that estimates 468 3D face landmarks in real-time even on mobile devices. It employs machine learning (ML) to infer the 3D surface geometry, requiring only a single camera input without the need for a dedicated depth sensor. Utilizing lightweight model architectures together with GPU acceleration throughout the pipeline, the solution delivers real-time performance-critical for live experiences. Human pose estimation from video plays a critical role in various applications such as quantifying physical exercises, sign language recognition, and full-body gesture control. For example, it can form the basis for yoga, dance, and fitness applications. It can also enable the overlay of digital content and information on top of the physical world in augmented reality. -
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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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guiscrcpy
Full fledged GUI integration for the Android screen mirroring system
A simple, pluggable, graphical user interface for the fastest Android screen mirroring software, scrcpy. guiscrcpy is a multiplatform, ready-to-use GUI layer for Android to PC screen mirroring written in the advancing programming language python3 for the most award-winning open-source android screen mirroring system. -
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Radare2
UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset
A free/libre toolchain for easing several low-level tasks like forensics, software reverse engineering, exploiting, and debugging. It is composed by a bunch of libraries (which are extended with plugins) and programs that can be automated with almost any programming language. It is recommended to install it from git, alternatively, you can pick the last release (every 6 weeks) from Github. Batch, Commandline, visual, and panels interactive modes. Embedded webserver with js scripting and WebUI. Assemble and disassemble a large list of CPUs. Runs on Windows and any other UNIX flavor out there. Analyze and emulate code with ESIL. Native debugger and GDB, WINDBG, QNX, and FRIDA. Navigate ASCII-art control flow graphs. Ability to patch binaries, and modify code or data. Search for patterns, magic headers, and function signatures. Easy to extend and modify. Commandline, C API, script with r2pipe in any language.
