Edison Candle

The Edison Candle is an example of building a production device using a System-on-Module (SoM) running Android Things. This repository contains the application software. You can find the hardware schematic, layout, and bill of materials (BOM) hosted on CircuitHub.

Edison Candle Hardware

Prerequisites

Getting Started

  1. Assemble the hardware components
  2. Import the project into Android Studio
  3. Connect the Edison to USB
  4. In Android Studio, click on the "Run" button.

If you prefer to run on the command line, type

./gradlew installDebug
adb shell am start com.example.androidthings.candle/.HomeActivity

Prototype Schematic

You may also choose to run the sample on an Edison developer kit, with the necessary peripherals connected as shown below:

Schematic for Edison Candle Prototype

Enable auto-launch behavior

This sample app is currently configured to launch only when deployed from your development machine. To enable the main activity to launch automatically on boot, add the following intent-filter to the app's manifest file:

<activity ...>

    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.HOME"/>
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
    </intent-filter>

</activity>

License

Copyright 2017 The Android Open Source Project, Inc.

Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.