Google's Android Things OS won't work on new Raspberry Pi board
The new Raspberry Pi Zero W was designed to be a board to make internet-of-things devices, but a key OS from Google won't work on the hardware.
Google's Android Things IoT OS will not work with the small developer board, which is partly a wireless board, partly a gadget development tool. The Zero W is priced at $10.
The Zero W has a 1GHz single-core BCM2835 processor, which is based on the ARMv6 architecture.
Android Things does not support ARMv6, so the OS will not work on the board. The OS is specially tuned to work with specific chipsets.
The BCM2835 chip is the same in the original Raspberry Pi developer boards.
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