Android for the BeagleBone Black

Book Description

Design and implement Android apps that interface with your own custom hardware circuits and the BeagleBone Black

About This Book

• Design custom apps that interact with the outside world via BeagleBone Black
• Modify Android to recognize, configure, and communicate with sensors, LEDs, memory, and more
• A step-by-step guide full of practical Android app examples that will help the users to create Android controlled devices that will use BeagleBone as hardware

Who This Book Is For

If you are an Android app developer who wants to experiment with the hardware capabilities of the BeagleBone Black platform, then this book is ideal for you. You are expected to have basic knowledge of developing Android apps but no prior hardware experience is required.

In Detail

This book explores using the Android OS on the BeagleBone Black hardware platform and provides an introduction to Android’s unique approach to hardware interfacing. You’ll be walked through the process of installing and configuring Android on your BeagleBone Black, as well as preparing your PC development environment to create Android applications that directly interface with hardware devices. Several example projects within this book introduce you to using the GPIO, SPI, and I2C hardware interfaces of the BeagleBone Black.

You’ll create Android apps that communicate directly with actual hardware components such as sensors, memory chips, switches, and LEDs. Step-by-step guidance through both the software and hardware portions of these projects is provided. Combining all of the previous projects into a single project that uses GPIO, SPI, and I2C together, you will explore the details of creating an advanced hardware interfacing app. Finally, you’ll be provided with information on transitioning prototype code into code suitable for deployment on an Android-based device. With a variety of example apps that demonstrate key hardware communication concepts, this book will help you become an Android hardware interfacing pro in no time.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction to Android and the BeagleBone Black
Chapter 2. Interfacing with Android
Chapter 3. Handling Inputs and Outputs with GPIOs
Chapter 4. Storing and Retrieving Data with I2C
Chapter 5. Interfacing with High-speed Sensors Using SPI
Chapter 6. Creating a Complete Interfacing Solution
Chapter 7. Where to Go from Here

中文：

书名：Beaglebone Black的安卓系统

设计和实施与您自己的定制硬件电路和Beaglebone Black接口的Android应用程序

关于本书

• 设计通过Beaglebone Black与外界互动的定制应用程序
• 修改Android以识别、配置传感器、LED、内存等并与其通信
• 这是一个分步指南，其中充满了实用的Android应用程序示例，将帮助用户创建使用Beaglebone作为硬件的Android控制设备

Who This Book Is For

如果你是一名Android应用程序开发人员，想要体验Beaglebone Black平台的硬件功能，那么这本书是你的理想之选。你应该有开发Android应用程序的基本知识，但不需要之前的硬件经验。

详细地说

本书探讨了在Beaglebone Black硬件平台上使用Android操作系统，并介绍了Android硬件接口的独特方法。您将逐步完成在Beaglebone Black上安装和配置Android的过程，以及准备您的PC开发环境以创建直接与硬件设备交互的Android应用程序。本书中的几个示例项目将向您介绍如何使用Beaglebone Black的GPIO、SPI和I2C硬件接口。

您将创建与传感器、内存芯片、开关和LED等实际硬件组件直接通信的Android应用程序。通过这些项目的软件和硬件部分提供了逐步指导。将所有以前的项目合并到一起使用GPIO、SPI和I2C的单个项目中，您将探索创建高级硬件接口应用程序的细节。最后，将为您提供将原型代码转换为适合在基于Android的设备上部署的代码的信息。通过各种演示关键硬件通信概念的示例应用程序，本书将帮助您在任何时间内成为Android硬件接口专家。

目录表

第1章：Android和Beaglebone Black简介
第二章：与安卓对接
第3章.使用GPIO处理输入和输出
第4章.使用I2C存储和检索数据
第5章.使用SPI与高速传感器接口
第6章：创建完整的接口解决方案
第七章.下一步要做什么