Google announced the platform ανάπτυξης εφαρμογών για το λειτουργικό σύστημα Android Things (ναι για το διαδίκτυο των πραγμάτων ή IoT), πριν από τρία χρόνια. Σήμερα η πλατφόρμα φέρεται να είναι έτοιμη στην πρώτη final έκδοση, με την κυκλοφορία του Android Things 1.0. Η ενημέρωση φέρνει αυξημένη συμβατότητα υλικού και μακροχρόνια υποστήριξη για τις συσκευές που θα το χρησιμοποιήσουν.
But what is Android Things.
It's an operating system for IoT devices, that is, smart lamps, thermostats, Wi-Fi cameras, smart refrigerators, toasters, or anything else you can imagine.
Σε αντίθεση με την κύρια έκδοση του Android, τρέχει με λιγότερες απαιτήσεις hardware και μπορεί άνετα να δουλέψει με 32MB RAM. Παρ 'όλα αυτά, έχει κοινή καταγωγή με το λειτουργικό σύστημα Android που τρέχει στο τηλέφωνό σας. Οι κωδικοποιητές του IoT μπορούν να αναπτύξουν εφαρμογές με την Java και την Kotlin και θα χρησιμοποιούν τα ίδια εργαλεία ανάπτυξης που χρησιμοποιούν και σήμερα.
Briefly: If you know how to create a phone or tablet app, you don't need to know too much about creating an Android Things product. In theory at least.
Android Things will be able to connect to Google's cloud services, such as Google Assistant and Google Machine Learning.
Google reports that the Android Things SDK has been downloaded 100.000 times, and that over 10.000 developers have helped develop the new operating system.
The new operating system extends operating system support to even more System-on-Module (SoM) boards. Android Things will work on everything based on the NXP i.MX8M, Qualcomm SDA212, Qualcomm SDA624 and MediaTek MT8516 platforms.
In addition, it will run on the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B and NXP i.MX7D.
From her point of view better safetys, Android Things brings innovations. For too long, device manufacturers have been delivering IoT products with insecure default settings and no prospect of long-term security.
The consequences of this can be summarized in one word: Mirai (and not only).
Mirai used standard IoT devices and turned them into a huge botnet. But because Android Things is a managed operating system, developers don't need to think much about system security and maintenance. It does the job itself, which is very important.
The new functionality gives device makers and therefore buyers the comfort of knowing that they will have updates for at least three years, which could be the life cycle of a device.
Android Things 1.0 is available today. You can read the release notes from here. To start the hacking, you can go to developer site, and you will find what you need.
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