Android Things Doorbell sample

The Android Things Doorbell sample demonstrates how to create a “smart” doorbell. The sample captures a button press from a user, obtains an image via a camera peripheral, processes the image data using Google’s Cloud Vision API, and uploads the image, Cloud Vision annotations and metadata to a Firebase database where it can be viewed by a companion app.

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Pre-requisites

• Android Things compatible board
• Android Things compatible camera (for example, the Raspberry Pi 3 camera module)
• Android Studio 2.2+
• "Google Repository" from the Android SDK Manager
• Google Cloud project with Cloud Vision API enabled
• Firebase database
• The following individual components:
  • 1 push button
  • 1 resistor
  • jumper wires
  • 1 breadboard

Setup and Build

To setup, follow these steps below.

1. Add a valid Google Cloud Vision API key in the constant CloudVisionUtils.CLOUD_VISION_API_KEY

• Create a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project on GCP Console
• Enable Cloud Vision API under Library
• Add an API key under Credentials
• Copy and paste the Cloud Vision API key to the constant in CloudVisionUtils.java

2. Add a valid google-services.json from Firebase to app/ and companionApp/

• Create a Firebase project on Firebase Console
• Add an Android app with your specific package name in the project
• Download the auto-generated google-services.json and save to app/ and companionApp/ folders

There are two modules: app and companionApp, the former is on device while the latter on companion device e.g. Android phone.

Running

To run the app module on an Android Things board:

1. Connect a push button to your device's GPIO pin according to the schematics below
2. Deploy and run the app module

• Reboot the Android Things board in order to grant the camera permission (this is a known issue with Developer Preview 1)

3. Take a picture by pushing the button
4. Verify from Firebase Console that pictures are uploaded to a log in the Firebase database of your project
5. Verify from Firebase Console that the uploaded pictures in the log get annotations after a small delay from the GCP Cloud Vision

To run the companionApp module on your Android phone:

1. Deploy and run the companionApp module
2. Verify that you see a new annotated picture everytime you push the button

Categories

• Android Things

Solutions

• IoT

Languages

• Java

License

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