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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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As we have done in previous chapters, let's remove the dependency of the Rainbow HAT meta driver and add only the driver that we need. In the case of the RGB LED strip, that driver is called driver-apa102:

dependencies {
implementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-apa102:+'
}

And, as we have been doing so far, let's use a BoardDefaults object to be able to run our code independently of the developer kit pinout naming:

val spiBus: String
get() = when (Build.DEVICE) {
DEVICE_RPI3 -> "SPI0.0"
DEVICE_IMX7D_PICO -> "SPI3.1"
else -> throw IllegalStateException("Unknown Build.DEVICE ${Build.DEVICE}")
}

There are a couple of important things to note here. First is that the exposed SPI bus on the Raspberry Pi is called 0, while the iMX7D one is 3. It is also important to note...

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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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