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Android Things Projects

You're reading from  Android Things Projects

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787289246
Pages 232 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Francesco Azzola Francesco Azzola
Profile icon Francesco Azzola

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Getting Started with Android Things Creating an Alarm System Using Android Things How to Make an Environmental Monitoring System Integrate Android Things with IoT Cloud Platforms Create a Smart System to Control Ambient Light Remote Weather Station Build a Spying Eye Android with Android Things

Android Things board compatibility


Android Things is a new operating system specifically built for IoT. At the time of writing, Android Things supported four different development boards:

  • Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
  • Intel Edison
  • NXP Pico i.MX6UL
  • Intel Joule 570x

In the near future, more boards will be added to the list. Google has already announced that it will support this new board NXP Argon i.MX6UL.

The book will focus on using the first two boards: Raspberry Pi 3 and Intel Edison. Anyway, you can develop and test all the book's projects on the other boards too. This is the power of Android Things: it abstracts the underlying hardware providing, a common way to interact with peripherals and devices. The paradigm that made Java famous, Write Once and Run Anywhere (WORA), applies to Android Things too. This is a winning feature of Android Things because we can develop an Android Things app without worrying about the underlying board. Anyway, when we develop an IoT app there are some minor aspects we should consider so that our app will be portable to other compatible boards.

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Published in: Jun 2017 Publisher: Packt ISBN-13: 9781787289246
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