Android Hardware Interfacing with the BeagleBone Black (Paperback)

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.

設計並實現與自己的自定義硬體電路和BeagleBone Black介面的Android應用程式

關於本書
- 設計與BeagleBone Black通過互動與外部世界的自定義應用程式
- 修改Android以識別、配置和與傳感器、LED、記憶體等進行通訊
- 提供實用的Android應用程式範例，逐步指導讀者創建使用BeagleBone作為硬體的Android控制設備

本書適合對BeagleBone Black平台的硬體功能感興趣的Android應用程式開發人員。讀者需要具備基本的Android應用程式開發知識，但不需要先前的硬體經驗。

詳細內容
本書探討在BeagleBone Black硬體平台上使用Android作業系統，並介紹Android獨特的硬體介面方法。您將逐步了解在BeagleBone Black上安裝和配置Android，以及準備PC開發環境來創建直接與硬體設備進行介面的Android應用程式的過程。本書中的幾個範例專案將介紹您如何使用BeagleBone Black的GPIO、SPI和I2C硬體介面。

您將創建與實際硬體元件直接通訊的Android應用程式，例如傳感器、記憶體晶片、開關和LED。本書提供了這些專案的軟體和硬體部分的逐步指導。將所有先前的專案結合成一個使用GPIO、SPI和I2C的專案，您將探索創建高級硬體介面應用程式的詳細資訊。最後，本書還提供了將原型代碼轉換為適用於基於Android的設備部署的代碼的相關資訊。通過展示關鍵硬體通訊概念的各種範例應用程式，本書將幫助您迅速成為Android硬體介面專家。