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Google to say goodbye to its smart home OS Android Things It seems that even refocusing the smart OS to cater only to smart displays and speakers still did not perform in the way Google expected it to. December 18, 2020 10:36 GMT When a product does not appeal much to the market, the only way to go is to shut it down. This is what Google is planning to do to its Android Things, a smart home OS that did not exactly tickle the fancy of Google fans. Android Things is a version of Android that is c...

Published: December 18, 2020 9:27 PM IST Google has announced that it will bid goodbye to Android Things, its Android-based operating system for IoT (Internet of Things) products, starting earlier next year. Read on to know why. Also Read - Google Pixel Buds A could launch alongside Pixel 5a: Report Android Things OS shutting down Google made the decision by official via its FAQ page for developers. The company wrote on the FAQ...

Google, unsatisfied with keeping things alive, is killing Android Things The company will start the process of sunsetting the platform on January 5, 2021. It will then completely shut it down on January 5, 2022. Add Android Things to the long list of Google projects that never went anywhere. This week, the company quietly announced in a FAQ for developers it will start the process of sunsetting the platform early next year. Android Things, if you need a refresher, is a lightweight version of A...

Buy now! ☕ Good morning! I finally struck gold on my Secret Santa this year, just as time ticked down to one week until Christmas. Phew. A Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus review is out for some reason, and more tech news 18/12/20 newsletter In the last 24 hours, the Samsung Galaxy S21 cat has come out of the bag completely.  Roland Quandt over at WinFuture.de released a ton of official press images of the S21. And, significantly, the S21 Ultra as well, with the focus of attention on the flat disp...

Android Things, the IoT OS you forgot about, is shutting down Google has announced that its Android Things smart home OS will be shutting down for good in just a few weeks, something that will impact just about nobody at all. The IoT platform never grew into anything notable and many consumers remained unaware of its existence — and as of January 5, it will join the huge list of Google projects that disappeared after a few years. Android Things is — was — a smart home platform for IoT de...

Google pulls plug on Android Things - Mobile World Live 18 DEC 2020 Google revealed plans to abandon its Android Things OS for IoT devices, after already scaling back its ambitions for the platform in 2019. The company notified developers in an FAQ post it will no longer allow creation of new projects on the platform from 5 January 2021, adding a full shutdown will follow on the same date in 2022. After the latter date, the Android Things “console will be turned down completely and all proje...

Photo: JEFF PACHOUD/AFP (Getty Images) While Google is infamous for killing off its creations, there’s a good chance you’ve never even heard of Android Things—a platform Google launched in 2018 for the Internet of Things. And although Google said last year it was shifting Android Things away from the smart home, it’s now officially pulling the plug on the whole project. Advertisement Ars Technica first spotted the news in an Android developer FAQ, which revealed that the Android Things ...

Perhaps this is a sign of a direction/strategy change. If I wanted my OS to become the market dominant OS for say Automotive or Public Broadcasting use, I wouldn’t be opening it up to to GP IoT, in fact I’d do my very best to keep it out of the GP market segment. The people that are going to buy commercial quantities of stuff, do not want the market flooded with free insecure hacks. So you make it free as in free to licensees, but you make getting a license impossible for any minor entity. ...

18 December 2020, 8:53 am EST By Google announced that it will shut down its stripped-down version of Android that is designed for smart home devices. The OS called Android Things never took off and was below expectations when introduced in the market. Google to shut down its OS for smart homes The smart home project started in 2015 and it was first introduced as Brillo and was meant to provide the underlying operating system for the internet of things. In 2016, Google changed Brillo and relau...

Android Community December 17, 2020 Back in 2015 when Android Things, an Android-based embedded OS was announced at Google I/O, it was a big deal for the future of IoT. The platform then launched in 2016, as it allowed developers to build apps on top of hardware platforms, primarily ones to be used with low-power and memory constrained IoT devices built from MCU platforms. Unfortunately, the platform never kick-started as intended, and didn’t even find a way to Google’s in-house products...