If you have a Mac OS X, the steps to install Android Things are slightly different. There are several options to flash this OS to the SD card; you will learn the fastest and easiest one.
These are the steps to follow:
Format your SD card using FAT32. Insert your SD card into your Mac and run Disk Utility. You should see something like this:
Where the path_to_your_image is the path to the file with the img extension you downloaded at step 2. In order to find out the rdiskn you have to select Preferences and then System Report. The result is shown in the following screenshot:
The BSD name is the disk name we are looking for. In this case, we have to write the following: