This article was published on April 8, 2015

Google’s late Christmas present for developers: open-sourcing its Santa Tracker


Google’s late Christmas present for developers: open-sourcing its Santa Tracker

Although it’s four months after Christmas, Google is still in the holiday spirit. Today, it’s open-sourced its Santa Tracker project, which includes apps for the Web, Android and Android Wear.

The source code is available on GitHub, and should help developers get a better idea of how to build sites and games using technologies like Polymer, JBox2D, the Web Animations API and OpenGL.

Google Santa Tracker

You can also get a closer look at how Google has designed and programmed watch faces and notifications for Android Wear, for ideas on how to build your own.

➤ Ho Ho Ho! Google’s Santa Tracker is now open source [Google Developers Blog via Engadget]

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