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Raul Portales
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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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If you are familiar with how Arduino code is structured, you may be expecting to have a setup and a loop methods. Android Things can work like that too. We will start with our methods named using that convention to provide a common ground if you have experience with Arduino. However, Android Things allows us to write code in a much more structured way. In this section we will start with something close to the Arduino way, explain its drawbacks, and show better alternatives, showing the different ways to blink an LED.

Blinking an LED is the IoT equivalent of Hello World.

Let's get into blinking an LED the Arduino way.

The Arduino way

The simplest way is to have a setup where we initialize the LED, followed by a loop...

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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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