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Google shutters its Android Things smart home operating system The system will shut down entirely in January 2022 Google has decided to shutter the Android Things operating system it launched to run smart home hardware. This OS was the final version of Google Brillo, which first released all the way back in 2015 . This system aimed to provide underlying architecture that manufacturers could use to update devices that feature Google Assistant integration. This means that manufacturers are going to have to find another way to develop Google Assistant-enabled speakers and smart dis...

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...

RIP Android Things, the Smart Home Platform We All Forgot Existed Share Filed to:android things Photo: JEFF PACHOUD/AFP, Getty Images To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. 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 sai...

georgeclerk via Getty Images Android Things’ days are numbered. Google has revealed that the Internet-of-Things platform is joining its ever growing pile of retired products in an FAQ page for developers. The tech giant originally launched Android Things as an operating system for all kinds of IoT devices until it decided to change the platform’s focus and make it a dedicated OS for speakers and displays OEMs can use for their products last year. “Following in line with those updates,” Google wrote in the FAQ page, “we are turning down the Android Things Console for non-commercial u...

Google plans on shuttering its struggling Android Things platform. Android Things was a stripped-down version of Android designed to work on Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. Existing developers will have up to January 2022 to keep running their existing deployments before Google's console stop working and all data is deleted. When it launched back in 2018, Google's Android Things platform seemed like an up-and-coming, low-cost alternative for IoT manufacturers and enthusiasts that could potentially bring some degree of standardization to the IoT world. We were certainly quite optimistic abou...