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Android Things Quick Start Guide

By : Raul Portales
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Book Image

Android Things Quick Start Guide

5 (1)
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.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

More cool stuff

A bit more briefly, let's look at other interesting options that Android Things offers us.

TensorFlow – image classifier

TensorFlow is a library provided by Google to do machine learning. You can do the processing on the cloud, or you can do it on the device itself using TensorFlow Lite, which is when it gets interesting.

One of the most common use cases is image classifiers, where we train a model to recognize different categories of images and then use it to classify new ones. There are two very interesting codelabs, one on how to integrate an image classifier on Android Things and another one about how to train you own classifier.

You can learn how to integrate TensorFlow Lite on Android Things...