[SOLVED] How to create Android Things' bundle and push it over OTA?

How to create Android Things' bundle and push it over OTA?

Anyone succeeded creating Android Things Bundle and pushing it over OTA?

On the Android Things' Console, there's a page to Create a Bundle for the OTA.

I'm trying to figure out how to do that. I've adding just a single APK file main.apk to a ZIP file. Then I've tried to push it to a RPi which is sitting nearby. But the main.apk would not be launched on the device.

Things I've tried/done:

Download Empty bundle with Things Build ID=NIH40K
Creating a Bundle and pushing it to devices through OTA UPDATES
Creating a new FACTORY IMAGE with that newly created bundle
Still my app would not be started
I've checked, my app's MainActivity has action=MAIN and category=IOT_CATEGORY
Tried running app from my laptop via adb connect Andorid.local and it works as designed

But I couldn't make an OTA update. Anyone succeeded doing so?

Here's my project on Github: https://github.com/ViliusKraujutis/Android-Things-Demo

Thanks

Solution

Here are all the steps necessary to make OTA update possible after creating a new product in your android things console :

1 - Create your first build configuration, either from the empty bundle in the console or from a personnal bundle you added.

2 - Download build of this build configuration. You will get an Android Things image. Flash it to your RPi as you did when you flashed the Android Things regular image. https://developer.android.com/things/hardware/raspberrypi.html#flashing_the_image

From now on, your RPi will check if a different version of your product has been pushed from the console. The check happens every 5 or 6 hours so you might have to be patient. Also your RPi needs to have internet access.

3 - Upload another bundle to your console, create a build configuration for it and then push it to your devices via the OTA updates panel of your console.

4 - You will need to manually reboot the RPi to apply the update.

This article from Dave McKelvie is a good example in my opinion : http://android.geek.nz/hello-android-things-developer-console/