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Android Things Quick Start Guide

By : Raul Portales

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Android Things Quick Start Guide

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By: Raul Portales

Overview of this book

Android Things is the IoT platform made by Google, based on Android. It allows us to build smart devices in a simple and convenient way, leveraging on the Android ecosystem tools and libraries, while letting Google take care of security updates. This book takes you through the basics of IoT and smart devices. It will help you to interact with common IoT device components and learn the underlying protocols. For a simple setup, we will be using Rainbow HAT so that we don't need to do any wiring. In the first chapter, you will learn about the Android Things platform, the design concepts behind it, and how it relates to other IoT frameworks. We will look at the Developer Kits and learn how to install Android Things on them by creating a simple project. Later, we will explore the real power of Android Things, learning how to make a UI, designing and communicating with companion apps in different ways, showcasing a few libraries. We will demonstrate libraries and you will see how powerful the Android Things operating system is.

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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Introducing Android Things

Introducing Android Things

Technical requirements

What is Android Things?

Design concepts behind Android Things

Hardware you will need

Setting up a developer kit

Creating an Android Things project

The Rainbow HAT

The Rainbow HAT

Technical requirements

Android Things architecture

Alphanumeric display (Ht16k33)

Temperature and pressure sensor (Bmx280)

LED strip (Apa102)

GPIO - Digital Input/Output

GPIO - Digital Input/Output

Technical requirements

Making the code work on any developer kit

Using GPIO for output

Using GPIO for input

Other usages of GPIO

PWM - Buzzers, Servos, and Analog Output

PWM - Buzzers, Servos, and Analog Output

Technical requirements

PWM as analog output

I2C - Communicating with Other Circuits

I2C - Communicating with Other Circuits

Technical requirements

Overview of I2C

Revisiting Rainbow HAT components

Extension components

Other I2C sensors

SPI - Faster Bidirectional Communication

SPI - Faster Bidirectional Communication

Technical requirements

Overview of SPI

Usage on displays

The Real Power of Android Things

The Real Power of Android Things

Technical requirements

Using Android UI

Companion apps and communication

More cool stuff

Pinouts diagrams and libraries

Pinouts diagrams and libraries

Raspberry Pi Pinout

NXP iMX7D Pinout

Supported and unsupported libraries

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