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    August 17, 2021

    Android Weekly Superthread (Aug 16 2021) - Your weekly thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!

    Weekly Superthread (Aug 16 2021) - Your weekly thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!

    Posted: 16 Aug 2021 05:00 AM PDT

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    Android should have native support for IoT and ITTT style interactions

    Posted: 16 Aug 2021 04:29 AM PDT

    (To the mods: I believe this counts as a "discussion promoting rant").

    Despite all of this talk of the IoT... things just... don't work together. Still. In 2021. It's getting better, with things like Thread and ZB3.0, but if we want smart stuff to ever be better than a remote control(I am not convinced this will actually happen....), we need some standards for what happens once the the data is actually on a device.

    One of the things that makes Android amazing is the rich inter-app communication. Why not extend that to essentially support something like SCADA tagpoints?

    Apps should be able to expose a variable, DBus style, that another app can subscribe to. This would obviously be a security nightmare and need per-variable permissions, but such is life.

    Your watch probably measures heart rate. There's probably an app to log it. Maybe it has a widget. Your smart bulb probably has a widget. You have an NFC scanner.

    You can't, however, graph heart rate and and screen-on time together. You can have an NFC tag trigger actions, but only what your specific app supports. Nothing is generic and modular.

    With Data Fields/Tags/DBus attributes/whatever you want to call them, you would just have a generic "Data Graph" app. Your watch would expose heart rate as a variable. The system would expose screen-on state. You just share them both with the graph app.

    Or with some other app. Instead of just location sharing in a chat app, there could be everything sharing. Maybe you text someone the ability to see your step count, as an accountability partner thing.

    Maybe you want a cool steampunk gauge that shows outside temperature?

    A huge number of people are completely able to be programmers as long as they don't know they're programming, and get scared(See Excel).

    Want a video call mute button?

    The app can expose the mute state. Android's "Binding Manager" could let you set up whatever selfie stick bluetooth you had as push to talk.

    Just click "When" and select the key you want, then add a toggle action with the variable you want.

    And of course, this would make Android the perfect smart hub OS, since it's already insanely reliable and seems very well suited for the job.

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