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Android Things Projects

You're reading from Android Things Projects

Product type Book

Published in Jun 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787289246

Pages 232 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Francesco Azzola

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Getting Started with Android Things

2. Creating an Alarm System Using Android Things

3. How to Make an Environmental Monitoring System

4. Integrate Android Things with IoT Cloud Platforms

5. Create a Smart System to Control Ambient Light

6. Remote Weather Station

7. Build a Spying Eye

8. Android with Android Things

Ambient light control system description

Before diving into the project implementation details, it is useful to have an overview of the project we want to build. The idea that stands behind this project is building a system that has a unique center of control, represented by Android Things, and several remote IoT boards that are connected to RGB LED strips. These IoT boards receive the commands from the Android Things app and according to these commands, they set various RGB LED color or apply several light effects.

This project uses two different IoT boards:

Android Things compatible boards such as Raspberry
PI 3 Arduino Uno R3

The following diagram gives an overview of this project and the roles played by these two boards:

As you can notice, the LED strips are connected to Arduino boards that manage them directly. In turn, the Arduino boards receive commands from the Android Things board using HTTP protocol. HTTP protocol is a web-oriented protocol that we can use to exchange data between different...

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Authors (1)

Francesco Azzola

Francesco Azzola is an electronic engineer with over 15 years of experience in computer programming and JEE architecture. He is SCEA certified (Sun Certified Enterprise Architect), SCWCD, and SCJP. He is an Android and IoT enthusiast. He loves creating IoT projects using Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Android, and other platforms. He is interested in the convergence between IoT and mobile applications. Previously, he worked in the mobile development field for several years. He has created a blog called survivingwithandroid,where he shares posts about coding in Android and IoT projects.

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