Questions tagged [android-things]

Android Things is an operating system for the Internet of Things based on the Android OS. It supports common peripherals like GPIO, SPI, I²C and UART with a single headed or headless app. When asking a question, don't use the Android tag unless it is common for both operating systems. It is a light weight version of Android OS, specially design for IOT devices.

The Android Things console will stop supporting new projects on January 5, 2021, and will be turned down for all existing projects on January 5, 2022. For more details, visit the FAQ page.

  • New APIs for IoT devices
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  • Low barrier to entry
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Build connected devices for a wide variety of consumer, retail, and industrial applications.

Official documentation:

Android Things Official Web Site

Android Things SDK Overview

Android Things Release Notes

Supported Hardware Platforms

Official Repositories:

Official GitHub profile

User-space drivers

Peripheral Driver Samples

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Android Things - Slow Installation

I trying to develop a simple application with Android Things and Raspberry Pi 3, the problem is that the installation of the App is very very slow (the size of the apk file is 4 or 5Mb). The network is fine. I'm using versión 0.5 of Android…
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Android Things BLE peripheral encrypted write and read permissions

There isn't much documentation in regards to setting up a pin with a Bluetooth Low Energy peripheral device. In my Gatt service I have set the BluetoothGattCharacteristic.PERMISSION_WRITE_ENCRYPTED_MITM and receive a GATT_INSUFFICIENT_PERMISSION…
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Android Things 0.5.0-devpreview HDMI output isn't available on Raspberry Pi 3

I am using a Samsung monitor and it displays this message "Mode Not Supported. Resolution not supported. Change the resolution of the external device." I had tried to use different monitor but still can not get the right format output…
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Rainbow HAT Android things temperature offset

Whenever I run the "weatherstation" application from here: https://github.com/androidthings/weatherstation and let it run for a little while, the temperature sensing is off the charts. My room is about 25C whereas the sensor starts of about 21C but…
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android things MQTT broker

so I'm building a home automation project and I want the main server/processing hub to be a Raspberry Pi 3 running Android things. The problem currently is that I'm having a hard time installing/coding/running an MQTT server on the Raspberry Pi 3…
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SPI Clk transitions to idle state but no data transfer

I am attempting to run an SPI demo on android things. Currently I am able to view the CLK line transitioning to the correct idle state after I call all configuration parameters, including setMode. However, whenever I call write(), I do not see the…
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Wifi connection drops when using UART1 port on the intel edison board running android things

Intel Edison seems to be using the UART1 port for WIFI when running android things. As such, when I try to use the UART1, I lose the wifi connection. Has anyone had to deal with this issue and found a workaround? Perhaps an implementation of a…
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Cardview in Android Things

I've made a Raspberry Pi 3 run my application on Android Things, but a lot of graphic elements are not properly displayed. I've a RecyclerView with a list of items whose layout include a CardView. The CardView is not correctly displayed, and it's…
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UART serial access with Rpi 3

I am trying to establish a serial connection between the RPI3 and an Arduino. Because that wasn't working I connected a USB to TTY cable from my laptop to the Rx/Tx pins of RPI. I was eventually able to use PuTTy to connect to it. I am running…
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OpenThread Border Router on Android Thing device

I am starting to develop for Android Things and I was wondering if it was possible to implement OpenThread Border Router on a Raspberry PI 3B with Android Things flashed into it.…
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i.MX7D board detected as Android ADB Interface but adb devices does not show the device

I recently got an Android Thing kit with NXP i.MX7D board. I tried to follow the instruction to flash the board with Android and found a glitch which I have not found a solution yet. I'm running Windows 10 PC and when I plugged the board Devices…
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Android things (Raspberry Pi 3) BluetoothAdapter.startLEScan(..)

I'm trying to do: BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter().startLeScan() I've added all required permissions (as I think):
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Gradle error when trying to build Android Things project with Android Studio Canary 2

I am trying to get started with Android Things. I am selecting Android Things in Project type in Android Studio 3.0 Canary 2 from May 26 2017. My gradle build is failing. What is wrong here? Is this an issue with the Canary build?
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Google Assistant

I try to run the sample-googleassistant with android things. I follow all the steps but when I run it, it shows the errors. Can someone help me?
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Google Play Store is missing in Android Things

Did anyone successfully build location service into Android Things? I am trying to use LocationServices, but it cannot connect with Google Play. It complains "W/GooglePlayServicesUtil: Google Play Store is missing." and ConnectionResult is…