(^22) July 2018 raspberrypi.org/magpi
Feature
simpler way of putting Android on the
Raspberry Pi, Android Things is optimised
more for IoT. You won’t be getting your home
screen or app menu or anything like that, but you
can program it to be a bit more customisable than
stock Android.
A

INSTALL

ANDROID

THINGS

You too can do IoT with

Android Things and a Raspberry Pi

Get the installer

Head to the Android Things console

(magpi.cc/iXejLF) and sign in with your Google

account. Click on the menu in the top left to find

the Tools section, where the Android Things Setup

Utility lives. You’ll need to download this and then

unzip the files within – there’s no extra installation

for the setup utility.

STEP 01

Start it up STEP 02

On Windows, you’ll need to right-click on the

Setup Utility EXE (which has ‘windows’ in the file

name) and run it as Administrator. On macOS and

Linux, you’ll need to run it from a terminal with

something like:

sudo ~/Downloads/android-things-setup-utility/

android-things-setup-utility-linux

...but making sure to point towards the correct file

in the correct folder.