Android Things Developers' Preview 4

Google has released Developer Preview 4 of Android Things.

One of the biggest improvement is the availability of Google Assistant SDK on all HW supported platforms. Previoulsy, in Dev. Preview 3.1 it was itroduced only on RPI3.

"Earlier this month, we announced a partnership with AIY Projects, enabling Android Things support for the Raspberry Pi-based Voice Kit. And now with DP4, the necessary drivers are provided to support the Google Assistant SDK on all Android Things certified development boards."

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/05/android-things-developer-preview-4.html

Therefore, it is also available on Intel Edison.

As soon as I have some spare time, I'll test it.

My AndroidThings 2

One quick update, things are rapidly happening in AndroidThings Space: Intel has announced a porting of its MRAA and UPM libraries to AndroidThings. Have a look here

MRAA and UPM on AndroidThings

Obviously it is only a starting point: you'll only drivers for few sensors.

As soon as I have time, I'll try with my LCD display, coming from my Grove kit.

My Android Things

AndroidThings

Android Things is the new name that Google has adopted for its OS for Internet of Things. Before, the code name was “Brillo”.

Google has made available Android Things to developers, as a developer preview, at the end of 2016.
At the beginning of April 2017 (06/04), Google has released the DP3, adding for example BLE support, and it has been generally made available.
See the announcement here:

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/04/android-things-developer-preview-3.html

What is interesting is that it can be installed on a set of prototyping boards, such as Raspberry PI 3 (RPI3) and Intel Edison and therefore you can easily test it (obviously if you have one of these boards available).