Kurt - Raspberry Pi Android projects create exciting projects by connecting Raspberry Pi to your Android phone

Gkhan Kurt has been trying to keep up with the the latest developments in technology and IT in his 15-year-long development career. For the past 4 years, he has been working at IFS Labs, one of the top innovation departments of the Swedish software industry. Currently, he is involved in the Internet of Things and has been developing prototype IoT implementations using Raspberry Pi.

He has a master's of science degree from Chalmers University of Technology and a bachelor's degree from the Middle East Technical University. You can connect with him on Twitter (@KurtGok) and on LinkedIn (http://se.linkedin.com/in/kurtgokhan).

I would like to thank my dear wife, Hediye, for her patience during the writing of this book. Special thanks to my 3-year-old son, Derin, for providing me with the intellectual support needed for writing this book with his Lego building skills. I would also like to thank my 3-month-old daughter, Eliz, for keeping me awake at night so that I was able to think about exciting projects to include in this book.

Thushara Jayawardena is in his fourteenth year of working in the software development industry. Right after he graduated from university in 2001, he joined the IFS world operations (http://www.ifsworld.com/) development center in Colombo, Sri Lanka. His early years were spent as a junior SW engineer. He then moved into SW systems as a system engineer, overseeing mission-critical production systems. During this time, he became a principal systems engineer, and also moved to Sweden in 2007 where he started working at the head office of IFS in Linkping, Sweden. From 2014 to date, he has been working on product benchmarking for IFS. He has mainly worked with technologies, such as Oracle RDBMS, J2EE systems, and Jboss/Oracle WebLogic. He is also knowledgeable about various scripting technologies and languages, such as PowerShell and VB scripting. In recent years, he's been active in monitoring tools written in Angular JS and Google graphs. In the field of product benchmarking, he has worked with data science, especially generating synthetic data for load simulations. He has also spent considerable time at work on performance testing tools, such as HP LoadRunner.

In his spare time, apart from travelling and enjoying different cultures with his son, daughter, and wife, he spends time with Android, Google App Engine, and Raspberry Pi home-brewing projects.

Eric Wuehler lives in the Pacific Northwest with his lovely wife and three children. He has been working in the technology field professionally for over 20 years. He can be reached online at ericwuehler.com.

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Preface

The most popular gadget in the maker community, Raspberry Pi , and the most popular smartphone OS, Android , combine their powers in this book, resulting in exciting, useful, and easy-to-follow projects. The projects covered come in handy in your daily interaction with the Pi and can be helpful as building blocks for even more amazing projects.

What this book covers

, Make a Remote Desktop Connection to Your Pi from Anywhere , teaches you how to make the initial setup to get started with your Pi and connect remotely to the Pi desktop from an Android device from anywhere in the world.

, Server Management with Pi , builds on the previous chapter to manage the Pi and the different servers we install on it. We will even introduce an interesting, useful project on the way that makes use of these servers.

, Live Streaming of a Surveillance Camera from the Pi , shows you how to turn your Pi into a webcam and then introduces you to the techniques to use it in surveillance mode, which is accessible through an Android device and the Internet.

, Turn Your Pi into a Media Center , shows you how you can turn your Pi into a media center that is controllable from an Android device.

, Missed Calls with Pi , introduces the techniques required to access sensors and components on the Pi from Android through Bluetooth and shows how the Pi can notify you about the calls you receive on your phone.