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Android Things Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Android Things Quick Start Guide Build your own smart devices using the Android Things platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789341799
Length 192 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Raul Portales Raul Portales
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LEDs

If you are familiar with how Arduino code is structured, you may be expecting to have a setup and a loop methods. Android Things can work like that too. We will start with our methods named using that convention to provide a common ground if you have experience with Arduino. However, Android Things allows us to write code in a much more structured way. In this section we will start with something close to the Arduino way, explain its drawbacks, and show better alternatives, showing the different ways to blink an LED.

Blinking an LED is the IoT equivalent of Hello World.

Let's get into blinking an LED the Arduino way.

The Arduino way

The simplest way is to have a setup where we initialize the LED, followed by a loop...

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