Changing Boot Animation over adb on Android Things

You’ll need to install and setup adb and then run the following commands. Change ipaddress to the ip address of the device running Android Things

adb connect ipaddress
adb root
adb remount
adb push bootanimation.zip /system/media/
adb reboot

bootanimation.zip will either need to be in the same directory as adb, or you can specify the path. For example if it is located on your Desktop you can use

For Windows

adb push \Users\username\Desktop\bootanimation.zip /system/media/

on Linux or MacOS

adb push ~/Desktop/bootanimation.zip /system/media/

Installing Android Things on Raspberry Pi 3 B+

https://developer.android.com/things/hardware/raspberrypi

Download the Console Tools from the following link. You will need to sign into your Google account.

https://partner.android.com/things/console/#/tools

Unzip the file and Launch the correct utility for your OS.

On Windows you will need to launch as administrator by right clicking on the Windows Application and Run as administrator.

Run as administrator

The program is easy to follow along with and automatically downloads and creates the SD card for the Pi.

After you are finished, put the card in the Pi and boot it up.