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Posted by Wayne Piekarski , Developer Advocate for IoT Today, we are releasing the next Developer Preview 4 (DP4) of Android Things , bringing new supported hardware, features, and bug fixes to the platform. The goal of Android Things is to enable Android Developers to quickly build smart devices, and seamlessly scale from prototype to production using a Board Support Package (BSP) provided by Google. AIY Projects and Google Assistant SDK 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. Learn more from the instructions in the sample . New hardware and driver support We are now adding a new Board Support Package for the NXP i.MX7D , which supports higher performance than the i.MX6UL while still using a low power System on Module (SoM) design. Support for I...

Posted by Wayne Piekarski , Developer Advocate for IoT Today, we are releasing the Developer Preview 3 (DP3) of Android Things , bringing new features and bug fixes to the platform. This preview is part of our commitment to provide regular updates to developers who are building Internet of Things (IoT) products with our platform. Android developers can quickly build smart devices using Android APIs and Google services, while staying secure with updates directly from Google. The System-on-Module (SoM) architecture supports prototyping with development boards, and then scaling them to large production runs while using the same Board Support Package (BSP) from Google. Android Bluetooth APIs DP3 now includes support for all Android Bluetooth APIs in android.bluetooth and android.bluetooth.le , across all Android Things supported hardware. You can now write code that interacts with both Bluetooth classic and low energy (LE) devices just like a regular Android phone. Existing samples such as...