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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

Summary


At the end of this chapter, you learned how to use I2C sensors and how to connect them to an Android Things board. Moreover, we implemented a full-working Android Things IoT app that monitors environmental parameters. We have learned how to control GPIO pins using the information retrieved from sensors. This project can be extended by adding new features. An interesting feature that you could add is considering if the pressure is rising or lowering to have a more detailed weather forecast. Using this environmental monitoring system, you gained knowledge about how to implement custom drivers. In this way, you have infinite possibilities to use your Android Things board with several I2C sensors.

In the next chapter, we will cover an important aspect of the IoT ecosystem: IoT cloud platforms. We will learn how to use IoT platforms and how to integrate them with Android Things and stream data to the cloud.