Good news for high-tech tinkerers. The Android mobile operating system will soon be compatible with the Raspberry Pi 3, this miniature computer costing only $ 35. Indeed, a Google engineer has added this equipment in the tree of the official repositories of open source software Android
For now, the branch dedicated to Raspberry Pi 3 is empty. But just the fact of seeing it exists provides hope next availability. No communication was made by Google on the subject. If an Android version for Raspberry Pi 3 were to materialize, the followers of this platform benefit from the start of a huge application catalog (more than 1.5 million apps) and a particularly dynamic development ecosystem, with the key to many tools and projects.
Google’s vision for the Internet of Things
This compatibility effort is perhaps also related to Brillo, an Android for connected objects that Google introduced the Google conference I / O 2015 and is already available by invitation. With this system, Google wants to create for the Internet of Things a development model where security and interoperability are the key words.
In particular, Brillo integrates Weave, a communication protocol that facilitates the discovery, connection and authentication of connected objects. This protocol originally came from Nest, a manufacturer of thermostats connected that Google acquired in 2014.
Brillo currently supports Intel architectures, MIPS and ARM. Among the compatible cards include, among others, Intel Edison, Qualcomm Dragonboard 410c and Creator Ci41 Imagination Technologies. All three are referenced in the tree of the official repositories of open source software Android. The Raspberry Pi 3 card could perfectly well add to this list, to the extent that it is based on an ARM Cortex-A53 chipset.
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Video on YouTube Brillo and Weave (January 2016)
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