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Android Things Projects

By : Francesco Azzola

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Android Things Projects

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By: Francesco Azzola

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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.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

Getting Started with Android Things

Internet of Things overview

IoT components

Android Things overview

Things support library

Android Things board compatibility

How to install Android Things on Raspberry

How to install Android Things on Intel Edison

Configuring the WiFi

Creating the first Android Things project

Differences between Android and Android Things

Create your first Android Things app

Summary

Creating an Alarm System Using Android Things

Alarm system project description

How to close the connection with a GPIO pin

Handle different boards in Android Things

How to implement the notification system

Android companion app

Summary

How to Make an Environmental Monitoring System

Environmental monitoring system project overview

How to read data from sensors

Handling sensors using the Android sensor framework

Putting it all together - acquiring data

How to close the sensor connection

How to control GPIO pins

Diving into I2C protocol

How to implement a custom sensor driver

Summary

Integrate Android Things with IoT Cloud Platforms

IoT cloud architecture

Streaming data to the IoT cloud platform

Sending data from the Android Things app

Creating a dashboard

Adding voice capabilities to Android Things

Summary

Create a Smart System to Control Ambient Light

Ambient light control system description

Building the Arduino project

Implementing the Android Things app

Invoking the Arduino services

How to implement a web interface

Summary

Remote Weather Station

Remote weather station project description

The M2M architecture and the MQTT protocol

Installing the MQTT server

Summary

Build a Spying Eye

Spying eye Android Things project overview

Implementing the spying eye project in Android Things

Summary

Android with Android Things

Architecture to connect Android and Android Things

How to control a LED strip using an Android app

How to develop an Android app that retrieves data from Android Things

Summary

Android companion app

In order to receive the notifications, we have to install an Android companion app on our smartphone. Just to simplify the system, this Android app will:

Subscribe to the channel used by the Android Things app to send notifications.
Implement a service to listen to the incoming notification.
Show the notification to the user.

If you do not know how to receive notifications in Android you can visit h t t p s ://f i r e b a s e .g o o g l e .c o m /d o c s /a n d r o i d /s e t u p to know more. The source code of the Android companion app is provided with this book's source code. The app interface is very simple because we simply have to subscribe to the topic and wait for the incoming notifications.

To install the app, just open the project using Android Studio and connect your smartphone to your PC/Mac. Add the google-services.json file to your app module. This file is the same one that...

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