Google Phases Out Android Things
Summary
Beginning January 5, 2021 the console will no longer allow the creation of new projects using NXP i.MX7D and Raspberry Pi 3B. Android Things supported three boards: the Intel Edison, the NXP Pico i.MX6UL and the Raspberry Pi 3. […] The reason I mention this is that there are lots of IoT products that use microcontrollers and therefore have less memory, less flash storage, use less power, and use less complex operating systems. The Moddable IoT platform allows developers to run a JavaScript engine on devices that may cost around $1 and host as little as 32KB RAM. Peter Hoddie, co-founder of Moddable, explained in an interview with InfoQ the benefits of embedded software that can run on inexpensive devices: Harry Fairhead, author of the book Raspberry Pi IoT In C, alluded to performance issues: Android Things is a now-deprecated Android-based embedded operating system platform by Google, announced at Google I/O 2015, and launched in 2018.