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Raul Portales
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Raul Portales is a software engineer who has had a love for computers, electronics, and gadgets in general for as long as he remembers. He jumped into Android as soon as it was released. Raul has worked on social networks, education, healthcare, and even founded a gaming studio and a consultancy company. Specializing in mobile and UX, he speaks frequently at conferences and meetups. Raul's love for electronics reignited when Google announced Android Things. He started tinkering with it with the first Developer Preview, which lead to adding the IoT category on his Google Developer expert profile.
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Buttons

The next component we are going to work with are capacitive buttons. The Rainbow HAT has three of them, labeled A, B, and C. Buttons can be handled in two different ways, using Buttons and using InputDrivers.

While Buttons are similar in behavior to the ones we place on a traditional UI, InputDrivers are similar to HID keyboards; they allow us to integrate with the operating system and send key press events, letting us handle our button presses as standard keys.

We will look at both of them with the same example: we will turn the red LED on when button A is pressed and off when it is not.

Let's start with the button driver.

Button driver

The simplest way to interact with a button is to use the button driver. This...

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Raul Portales

Raul Portales is a software engineer who has had a love for computers, electronics, and gadgets in general for as long as he remembers. He jumped into Android as soon as it was released. Raul has worked on social networks, education, healthcare, and even founded a gaming studio and a consultancy company. Specializing in mobile and UX, he speaks frequently at conferences and meetups. Raul's love for electronics reignited when Google announced Android Things. He started tinkering with it with the first Developer Preview, which lead to adding the IoT category on his Google Developer expert profile.
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