I've noticed in the Android Things contrib-drivers repo there's a few of these .driver-metadata files (one in each different driver folder). Does anyone know what they're for?
Example: https://github.com/androidthings/contrib-drivers/blob/master/rainbowhat/.driver-metadata
Thanks!
It could that Google use a tool to autogenerate the table of available drivers in their README of the repository.
You can see from this commit: https://github.com/androidthings/contrib-drivers/commit/194d09e8f4f0e0d5f8e0eef78ea26bdc8fa4fb5a
That each of the drivers created the type from the .driver-metadata file:
TYPE="RGB LED strip"
matches the column type in the README table:
| RGB LED strip |
Further if a .driver-metadata has another key,value of sample this is also in the table (and if it doesn't then there is no sample link).
This would mean (Google's side) if a driver was added/updated you would get automatic updates elsewhere.
This is just theoretical, you need a Googler to confirm :-)
