John Lindsay, developer of the Smooth Driver Monitoring Android app presented an overview of the Android Things operating system. He noted that one of the key advantages is an instant comprehensive development ecosystem, as the development environment is Android Studio and integrated functionality such as Firebase, Mobile Vision, and Tensor Flow. One of the noted key disadvantages is the current limited hardware platform support.If you’re familiar with traditional Android development, you’re well on your way to Android Things development, as Android Studio is the IDE and the lifecycle of apps are similar. Programmatically, one generally uses the PeripheralManagerService class to get a handle to a peripheral to then start reading and setting values.
The presentation concluded with demonstrations which were the same or minor modifications from the Android Things samples.