The days of Android Things are numbered. Google has revealed that the Internet of Things platform is joining the ever-growing pile of retired products on a developer FAQ page. The tech giant originally launched Android Things as an operating system for all kinds of IoT devices, until it decided to shift the focus of the platform and turn it into a dedicated operating system for speakers and displays that OEMs can use for their products last year. “In accordance with those updates,” Google wrote on its FAQ page, “we reject the Android Things Console for non-commercial use.”
The Android Things console will no longer accept new projects from January 5, 2021, which is just a few weeks away. Developers can continue to use the console to, among other things, roll out over-the-air updates to their existing projects for another year. On January 5, 2022, Google will shut down the console and delete all projects and data.