Google to shut down its light-weight IoT version of android early next year
Google has announced that Android Things, a heavily stripped-down Android-based operating system for Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, will shut down early next year. The Android Things Dashboard, which is used for managing devices, will stop accepting new devices and projects in just three weeks-on January 5, 2021. Developers will be able to continue updating existing deployments until January 5, 2022, the company said in a statement. After the given date, the console will be shut down completely for non-commercial use and all project data will be permanently deleted. The only products th...