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Oh god, I hadn't heard of Android Things before this article, and I do some hobbyist IoT work. Writing that sort of hardware stuff in Java with the Android SDK
by bschwindHN 8y ago
Oh god, I hadn't heard of Android Things before this article, and I do some hobbyist IoT work. Writing that sort of hardware stuff in Java with the Android SDK looks downright depressing. I'm not surprised either.
I've enjoyed using Espressif's esp-idf project, though I wish Rust could target Xtensa processors. mbed looks nice as well!
- TeMPOraL 8y agoCould be worse. Think embedded/IoT with node.js.
- jschwartzi 8y agoHilariously if you want to actually use Android Things on anything besides their supported hardware you'd still have to write all the low-level code to make it work, plus the Java code to make it work in Android. I hadn't heard of it before either and I'm pretty sure I work in their target market, but that's because they're doubling or tripling the amount of work I have to do to get something working relative to Embedded Linux.