Introducing Android

We have developed a Node.js application as a web server as well as to present an HTML user interface in order for users to interact with the home automation application. Another way to interact with the Smart Home application on Intel Galileo could be by developing native applications for your device; the device could be your personal computer, tablet, game console, smart TV, tablet, or smartphone.

The native application can send commands to the Smart Home application network socket, which we introduced in the previous section. You can also simply interact with the Node.js application from your native application instead of using a web browser. As Android is very popular, we will show how to develop a native application on our Android smartphone to interact with the Smart Home application.

Note

If you are not used to Android, this section may be hard to grasp. It is recommended to review the Android operating system, SDK, and the application development environment.

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