RE: Stranger Things are afoot with Android on Raspberry Pi - "Android Things" is available

rsc — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:57:08 GMT

Hackster.io is having an Android Things Design Contest:

https://www.hackster.io/contests/Google

RE: Stranger Things are afoot with Android on Raspberry Pi - "Android Things" is available

DAB — Mon, 08 May 2017 18:45:29 GMT

Nice update.

Yes, there are some interesting devices floating around that look very capable of hacking.

DAB

RE: Stranger Things are afoot with Android on Raspberry Pi - "Android Things" is available

shabaz — Sun, 07 May 2017 19:56:06 GMT

Interesting! : )

I'm surprised they took so long though : )

I hope they also have easy-to-use BeagleBone images at some stage too, because a lot of embedded Linux products are now using these too. Great to see Edison is covered.

There are now other deployment middleware on Linux, so Google is a bit slow with an Android image for this. I hope it is as easy to use as the other middleware out there (e.g. Legato).

Google of course has strengths in deployment/management, since Android and their app store is designed for that.

As for app development, one concern is, most embedded app developers are familiar Linux and many are nowadays up-to-speed with Linux-hosted app platforms like Node.JS for app creation, but not necessarily with development for Android and Android APIs and Java.

(I see some of their demo code is C/C++ or Java).

I wonder how Google will drive learning for this among engineers.. or maybe start incorporating things like Node.JS on Android with Android API connectors? : )