MatrixCreator Android

17 Nov 2016

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MatrixCreator Android

Android application that interfaces with MATRIX Creator MALOS layer.

Technologies

I’m using different technologies in the current project:

MatrixCreator: fully-featured development board with different technologies like Z-Wave, zigbee and NFC. Also it include Xilinx Spartan FPGA, Microphone Array (8 MEMS audio sensors), Everloop (35 RGBW LEDS) and UV, IR, IMU modules.
MALOS: MATRIX Creator abstraction layer that using ZeroMQ technology.
Protocol buffers: are Google’s language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.
Android: is the world’s most popular mobile platform.

Please review the last version of this document in github.

Current Features

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Everloop RGB color control
Humidity Sensor
Temperature Sensor
UV index radation
IMU (x,y) widget visualitation
GPIO input/output configuration (pin 0,1)
GPIO updates callbacks
Auto discovery Matrix Creator on LAN network
Manual IP Matrix device target

TODO

GPIO callback
Pressure
Mic Array visualization (beamforming localization)
ZigbeeBulb basic control
LIRC custom control config
RaspberryPi Wifi config via BT4
MALOS WakeWord config via Android (in development)

Preriquisities

Please install Matrix Creator CORE (MALOS service package) on your RaspberryPi and reboot it:

curl https://apt.matrix.one/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://apt.matrix.one/raspbian $(lsb_release -sc) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/matrixlabs.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install matrixio-malos
reboot

NOTE:

For more details: Getting Started Guide
Your creator on the same network
Android 4.4.x or later

Download

Pre-releases for testing, please download here.

Preriquisities and dependencies for Build

Clone repository and submodules

git clone --recursive https://github.com/matrix-io/matrix-creator-malos-android.git
cd matrix-creator-malos-android

Fabric configuration

create file matrix-malos-demo/app/fabric.properties with:

apiSecret=<YOUR FABRIC SECRET>
apiKey=<YOUR FABRIC API KEY>

(or open your project on AndroidStudio and config crashlytics fabric plugin or remove this dependency on gradle app file)

Building and install

./gradlew assembleDebug
./gradlew installDebug

(or with AndroidStudio IDE)