Samsung ARTIK Reference: The Definitive Developers Guide

Provides a professional-level reference to the Samsung ARTIK API, as well as to other aspects of interest to developers such as the file systems, the operating system internals, various available interfaces, input/output, and the hardware itself. This is the perfect book for experienced programmers and developers who want to jump in and work with Samsung's new ARTIK product line to create Internet of Things devices and applications. It is also a perfect follow-up resource for new-to-the-field developers who are just getting past the beginning stages of learning the ARTIK. 
Samsung ARTIK Reference begins with a concise overview of the hardware and the various developer reference boards that are available. Attention then shifts to operating system internals, modes such as sleep and startup, and the various file systems and their parameters that are available for developers to adjust. Also included is a reference of API calls, guidance on input and output, documentation of serial, audio, graphic, and other interfaces. There is extensive reference to online resources with annotation and commentary guiding the learning process in many directions for further study.
What You Will Learn

• Install the ARTIK toolkit and prepare to develop
• Manipulate the inner workings of the ARTIK operating system 
  
• Look up and refer to details of the ARTIK API specification
• Perform input and output over the peripheral interface buses
• Build embeddable applications in support of IoT devices
• Embed the ARTIK modules into your own hardware products

Who This Book Is For
Samsung ARTIK Reference is for experienced developers wanting to understand and begin working with ARTIK. The book is especially of interest to those wishing to interact with ARTIK modules from within their own applications and web services.

Cliff Wootton is a former Interactive TV systems architect at the BBC. The "Interactive News Loops" service developed there was nominated for a BAFTA award, and won a Royal Television Society Award for Technical Innovation. He has previously served as an invited guest speaker on preprocessing for video compression at the Apple WWDC developer conference in San Francisco, and a is former speaker on Interactive TV systems at the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas.
Cliff has taught post graduate MA students about real-world computing, multimedia, video compression, metadata, and how to leverage artistic creativity through the use of engineering and developer tools to build art installations. Current project work includes advanced web-based user interface development technologies, ePublishing tools, web-to-print systems, and working as a consultant engineer on R&D projects studying the deployment of next generation interactive TV systems based on open standards. Pro-bono work includes MPEG, ePublishing metadata and Cloud storage standards working groups.