Creating an Android App for your micro:bit

Some rough notes taken while creating an Android app in MIT App Inventor

Import Extensions

A couple of extensions need to be loaded in to App Inventor

• Download the Bluetooth extension:
  http://iot.appinventor.mit.edu/assets/edu.mit.appinventor.ble.aix
• Download the micro:bit extension
  http://iot.appinventor.mit.edu/assets/resources/com.bbc.microbit.profile.aix

Create the layout

Create the 'code'

micro:bit

Install the "no pairing required" hex file from Bitty Software

And you should get...

Further reading

The full documentation for the AppInventor library is available at: http://iot.appinventor.mit.edu/#/microbit/microbitintro

An alternative library for connecting AppInventor with the BBC micro:bit via Bluetooth is BlockyTalkyBLE: https://www.playfulcomputation.group/blockytalkyble.html

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