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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)

Summary

And that's a wrap. We started the book by learning the basic concepts of Android Things and how to set up a developer kit to then use the components of the Rainbow HAT, explore the different protocols that are used, and play with other components that are commonplace in IoT projects.

In this last chapter, we took a glimpse into what makes Android Things really powerful (besides the security updates policy) and that is all the libraries and resources that are at our fingertips. We have explored just a few, from adding UI to our devices to simple methods for communicating with a companion app or even a backend service. We also peeked at image classifiers and voice assistants. Finally, we presented some interesting online resources.

By now you should be able to find your way into any IoT project that you had in mind and make it a reality with Android Things.

Happy hacking...