Andreas Goransson - Professional Android Open Accessory Programming with Arduino

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Professional Android Open Accessory Programming with Arduino

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To Bobbie for being the only person I know of learning electronics before learning how to read (and for being so extremely patient with her dad) .

To Andreas Gransson, co-author and friend because he always exceeds my expectations. I did what I did just because you did what you did .

David Cuartielles Ruiz

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

ANDREAS GRANSSON currently works as a lecturer at Malm University where he teaches programming to design and engineering students; he has also lectured on these subjects at several universities and conferences such as EWSN and Android Only! Andreas actively contributes to various open source projects concerning machine-to-machine communication, which is one of his key research interests.

DAVID CUARTIELLES RUIZ works as a lecturer and runs the Prototyping Laboratory at the School of Arts and Communication at Malm University. He is a Research Fellow at the Medea Studio looking into two main areas: the Internet of Things and Digital Educational Tools. David is one of the founders of the Arduino project and is currently involved in running different research initiatives for it.

ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITOR

GREG MILETTE is a programmer, author, entrepreneur, and musician who loves writing practical Android apps, wiring Arduino hardware, and implementing great ideas. He is the founder of Gradison Technologies, Inc., author of Professional Android Sensor Programming, contributor to StackOverflow, drummer, and father of two.

CREDITS

EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Robert Elliott

PROJECT EDITOR

Ed Connor

TECHNICAL EDITOR

Greg Milette

PRODUCTION EDITOR

Daniel Scribner

COPY EDITOR

Kim Cofer

EDITORIAL MANAGER

Mary Beth Wakefield

FREELANCER EDITORIAL MANAGER

Rosemarie Graham

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF MARKETING

David Mayhew

MARKETING MANAGER

Ashley Zurcher

BUSINESS MANAGER

Amy Knies

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Tim Tate

VICE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE GROUP PUBLISHER

Richard Swadley

VICE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE PUBLISHER

Neil Edde

ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER

Jim Minatel

PROJECT COORDINATOR, COVER

Katie Crocker

PROOFREADER

Scott Klemp, Word One

Josh Chase, Word One

INDEXER

Ron Strauss

COVER DESIGNER

Elizabeth Brooks

COVER IMAGE

Lottie Lemon image courtesy of D. Cuartielles & A. Goransson

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THANKS TO FAMILY , friends and colleagues for their support while writing this book; above all a thanks to my co-author David for always pushing me to the next level. Also Id like to thank Tony Olsson and Fernando Barrajon for their support when writing this book. Special thanks go to Richard Hyndman of Google UK for giving us the opportunity to test the original Google ADK boards when all we had were the knockoffs, and a big thanks to Mario Bhmer too for sending us photographs of the ADK boards (which we ended up not needing thanks to Richard). Also a big thanks to Eui-Suk Chung and Seowan Kwon of Samsung for so gracefully lending us the latest versions of their Galaxy line phones to build our projects with and of course Hampus Jacobsson for introducing us to them.

I would also like to extend my gratitude to everyone at Wiley for working so hard. Thanks also to our editors, Ed Connor and Robert Elliot, in particular, for showing such great patience with this, our first, book. I would also like to acknowledge the open source project Fritzing which we used a lot in our writing process. Finally, Id like to thank Rodrigo Calvo for his assistance in fixing the USB Host libraries to work with the latest Android versions.