Android Things - The IoT platform for everyone.

Presented at Devconf South Africa.

In this presentation, Rebecca will cover the new platform recently announced by Google, called Android Things. She will cover an introduction to Android Things, basics of getting started with the platform and how any developer without electronics experience can build IoT apps with Android Things. A few use cases and examples will be shown in this session, along with how you can use the existing android libraries with your next IoT project.

Rebecca is the Android Engineering Lead at DVT based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She loves working with new technology and has a passion for making great user friendly products. In her spare time, she manages her open source app, Book Dash, which contains free African story books. She speaks at conferences and local meetups mainly about Android. When not coding, she can be found baking and travelling the world. Previous talks : https://riggaroo.co.za/talks/

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1. Rebecca Franks
   riggaroo.co.za
   @riggaroo
   The IoT platform for everyone
   

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2. Hello
   Rebecca Franks
   Android Engineering Lead at
   Dynamic Visual Technologies
   Google Developer Expert for Android
   riggaroo.co.za
   @riggaroo
   

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3. Expectation vs Reality
   

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6. What is Android Things?
   

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7. Android Things is an extension of the Android
   platform for IoT and embedded devices.
   

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8. Cameras
   Gateways
   HVAC Control
   Smart Meters
   Point of Sale
   Inventory Control
   Interactive Ads
   Vending Machines
   Security Systems
   Smart Doorbells
   Routers
   Energy Monitors
   Asset Tracking
   Fleet Management
   Driver Assist
   Predictive Service
   Ideal for powerful, intelligent devices that need to
   be secure.
   

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9. How is Android Things different?
   Android
   Studio
   Android SDKs
   & Developer
   Tools
   Firebase
   Libraries
   Google Cloud
   Platform SDKs
   Any other
   compatible
   Android/Java
   libraries...
   

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10. IoT Developer
    Console
    Automatic
    Security Updates
    Signed Images Verified Boot
    Easy and Secure Deployment
    

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11. SoM
    Architecture
    Google Managed
    BSP
    Scaling to Production
    

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12. Android Things for Developers
    

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15. Displays are Optional
    Consider Alternate UI
    

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16. Cons
    ● Only Dev Preview
    ● Weave not yet available for Android Things
    ● Very new - Not many examples online - mostly Python
    ● Some APIs not supported - ie hardwareAcceleration
    ● Closed Source
    

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17. Electronics Basics
    

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18. Components
    Breadboard - Construction base for
    prototyping electronics
    Jumper Wire - Used to interconnect the
    components of a breadboard
    

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19. LEDs - Emits visible light when an
    electric current passes through it
    Push Switches - Allows electricity
    to flow between its two contacts
    Components
    

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20. Resistor -Used to reduce current flow
    Source: http://www.electronicshub.or g/resistor-color-code/
    Components
    and many more...
    

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21. Ohm’s Law
    The current through a conductor
    between two points is directly
    proportional to the voltage across
    the two points.
    V = I * R
    V is Voltage (volts)
    I is Current (amps)
    R is Resistance (ohms)
    I = 0.023A
    V = 5V
    R = 5V / 0.023A
    R = ± 217 ohms
    

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22. Building an Android Things app
    

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23. Pinout Diagram
    

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24. Fritzing Diagrams
    

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25. Integrating with Hardware
    GPIO
    PWM
    I2C
    SPI
    UART
    Input
    Sensors
    GPS
    Peripheral
    Driver
    Library
    Peripheral I/O
    User Drivers
    

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26. Let’s try live coding..
    

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27. In case of emergency
    

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28. ● A Raspberry Pi 3 or alternative - Running Android Things
    ● Create standard project in Android Studio
    ● Add to app level build.gradle:
    provided 'com.google.android.things:androidthings:...'
    Getting Started
    

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29. 
    
    
    ...
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    AndroidManifest.xml
    

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30. Button button = new Button("BCM6",Button.LogicState.PRESSED_WHEN_LOW);
    button.setOnButtonEventListener(new Button.OnButtonEventListener() {
    @Override
    public void onButtonEvent(final Button button,final boolean pressed) {
    //...
    Log.i(TAG, "Button value changed:" + pressed);
    ledGpio.setValue(pressed);
    }
    });
    Button Press
    compile 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-button:0.2'
    

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31. //get access to the pin
    PeripheralManagerService service = new PeripheralManagerService();
    ledGpio = service.openGpio("BCM6");
    ledGpio.setDirection(Gpio.DIRECTION_OUT_INITIALLY_LOW);
    ledGpio.setValue(true);
    //remember to close the peripheral
    ledGpio.close();
    Turn on an LED
    

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32. Turn it on or off using Firebase Realtime DB
    FirebaseDatabase.getInstance().getReference("ledKitchen")
    .addValueEventListener(new ValueEventListener() {
    @Override
    public void onDataChange(final DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
    Boolean value = (Boolean) dataSnapshot.getValue();
    ledGpio.setValue(value);
    //.. handle exceptions
    }
    //..
    });
    

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33. Demo
    

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34. Other Examples
    

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35. https://github.com/riggaroo/android-things-distributed-piano
    Distributed Piano
    

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36. https://github.com/riggaroo/android-things-electricity-monitor
    Firebase Realtime
    Database
    Electricity Monitor
    

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37. final DatabaseReference onlineRef = firebaseDatabase.child(".info/connected");
    final DatabaseReference isPowerOnRef = firebaseDatabase.child("/online");
    onlineRef.addValueEventListener(new ValueEventListener() {
    @Override
    public void onDataChange(final DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
    if (dataSnapshot.getValue(Boolean.class)) {
    isPowerOnRef.setValue(true);
    isPowerOnRef.onDisconnect().setValue(false);
    }
    }
    //..
    });
    Electricity Monitor - Firebase
    

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38. https://github.com/androidthings/sample-tensorflow-imageclassifier
    Image Classifier
    

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44. Image Classifier
    

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45. Rebecca Franks
    riggaroo.co.za
    @riggaroo
    Google's IoT Developers Community
    https://g.co/iotdev
    Google's IoT Solutions
    https://iot.google.com
    Android Things SDK
    https://developer.android.com/things
    

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46. Rebecca Franks
    riggaroo.co.za
    @riggaroo
    www.devconf.co.za/rate
    

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47. ● https://www.myelectronicslab.com/tutorial/raspberry-pi-3-gpio-model-b-
    block-pinout/
    ● https://developers.google.com/weave/
    ● https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/24/why-iot-security-is-so-critical/
    ● https://github.com/androidthings/sample-simplepio/
    ● https://developer.android.com/things/index.html
    ● https://github.com/riggaroo/android-things-electricity-monitor
    ● https://github.com/riggaroo/android-things-distributed-piano
    ● https://github.com/riggaroo/android-things-button-examples
    Links & References
    

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