Android Things’ days are numbered. Google has revealed that the Internet-of-Things platform is joining its ever growing pile of retired products in an FAQ page for developers. The tech giant ...

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Google has announced that its Android Things smart home OS will be shutting down for good in just a few weeks, something that will impact just about nobody at all. The IoT platform never grew into ...

While Google is infamous for killing off its creations, there’s a good chance you’ve never even heard of Android Things—a platform Google launched in 2018 for the Internet of Things. And although ...

Google announced it’s shutting down Android Things, its lightweight OS for smart displays and speakers. The company will start the process of sunsetting the platform on January 5, 2021. It will then ...

The latest dead Google project is Android Things, a version of Android meant for the Internet of Things. Google announced it had basically given up on the project as a general-purpose IoT operating ...

The smart home project started in 2015 and it was first introduced as Brillo and was meant to provide the underlying operating system for the internet of things. In 2016, Google changed Brillo and ...