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Android Things user-space drivers

Sample peripheral drivers for Android Things.

Note: The Android Things Console will be turned down for non-commercial use on January 5, 2022. For more details, see the FAQ page.

How to use a driver

For your convenience, drivers in this repository are also published to JCenter as Maven artifacts. Look at their artifact and group ID in their build.gradle and add them as dependencies to your own project.

For example, to use the button driver, version 1.0, simply add the line below to your project's build.gradle:

dependencies {
implementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-button:1.0'
}

Current contrib drivers

DriverTypeUsage (add to your gradle dependencies)Note
driver-adcAnalog to Digital Convertersimplementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-adc:2.0'samplechangelog
driver-apa102RGB LED stripimplementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-apa102:1.0'samplechangelog
driver-bmx280temperature, pressure and humidity sensorimplementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-bmx280:1.0'samplechangelog
driver-buttonpush button over GPIOimplementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-button:1.0'samplechangelog
driver-cap1xxxcapacitive touch buttonsimplementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-cap1xxx:2.0'changelog
driver-gpsGPSimplementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-gps:1.1'samplechangelog
driver-ht16k337-digit alphanumeric segment displayimplementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-ht16k33:1.1'samplechangelog
driver-lowpanLoWPAN support over UARTimplementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-lowpan:1.0'samplechangelog
driver-matrixkeypaddriver for generic matrix keypadsimplementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-matrixkeypad:1.0'samplechangelog
driver-mma7660fcaccelerometer sensorimplementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-mma7660fc:1.0'samplechangelog
driver-motorhatDC Motor HATimplementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-motorhat:1.0'samplechangelog
driver-pwmservoPWM servoimplementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-pwmservo:1.0'samplechangelog
driver-pwmspeakerPWM speaker/buzzerimplementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-pwmspeaker:1.0'samplechangelog
driver-rainbowhatmetadriver for the Rainbow HATimplementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-rainbowhat:1.0'samplechangelog
driver-sensehatmetadriver for the Sense HATimplementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-sensehat:1.0'changelog
driver-ssd1306OLED displayimplementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-ssd1306:1.1'samplechangelog
driver-thermalprinterDriver for a thermal printerimplementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-thermalprinter:0.1'changelog
driver-tm16374-digit numeric segment displayimplementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-tm1637:1.0'samplechangelog
driver-vcnl4200proximity and ambient light sensorimplementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-vcnl4200:1.0'changelog
driver-voicehatdriver for VoiceHatimplementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-voicehat:1.0'samplechangelog
driver-zxgesturesensorzx gesture sensorimplementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-zxgesturesensor:1.0'changelog

Deprecated drivers

DriverTypeUsage (add to your gradle dependencies)Reason
driver-adcv2xSparkfun ADC Block for Intel Edisonimplementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-adcv2x:1.0'Superseded by driver-adc
driver-cap12xxcapacitive touch buttonsimplementation 'com.google.android.things.contrib:driver-cap12xx:1.0'Superseded by driver-cap1xxx

License

Copyright 2016 Google Inc.

Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

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