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Android Things Projects

By : Francesco Azzola
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Android Things Projects

By: Francesco Azzola

Overview of this book

Android Things makes developing connected embedded devices easy by providing the same Android development tools, best-in-class Android framework, and Google APIs that make developers successful on mobile. With this book, you will be able to take advantage of the new Android framework APIs to securely build projects using low-level components such as sensors, resistors, capacitors, and display controllers. This book will teach you all you need to know about working with Android Things through practical projects based on home automation, robotics, IoT, and so on. We’ll teach you to make the most of the Android Things and build enticing projects such as a smart greenhouse that controls the climate and environment automatically. You’ll also create an alarm system, integrate Android Things with IoT cloud platforms, and more. By the end of this book, you will know everything about Android Things, and you’ll have built some very cool projects using the latest technology that is driving the adoption of IoT. You will also have primed your mindset so that you can use your knowledge for profitable, practical projects.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Alarm system project description


An alarm system is a complex system that uses several sensors to keep our home safe. At the heart of these types of systems, there are sensors that are able to detect motion. In other words, these sensors can detect if an object is moving in their detection area. When this happens, they notify this event. In this chapter, we will create a real-life project that uses these sensors to detect motion and notifies the event to the smartphones. At the end of this project, we will be able to detect if someone is entering our home without our authorization. Once you have built this project, you can expand it, adding more sensors so that you can monitor several rooms. Moreover, this project can be used as a starting point and can be expanded, adding new features as we will see in the following sections. The following figure describes how this Android Things IoT project will work:

The following are the main steps:

  1. The PIR sensor scans the detection area looking for movement...