Hi,
I have develop an app in my pc using Visual Basic to control arduino via serial, and it work. Now I want to develop an android app to control an arduino through WiFi. Here is the step of my explanation:
Can someone help me. If anyone have tutorial, please share it! Thanks!
Or buy a network shield for arduino...
Control Arduino from Android?
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I am controlling a machine which running windows os. the os have the application to control the machine directly. What I want is to control the machine with my android phone. I have no problem with the wireless connection. My problem is now, I need to create an application in android to control the machine through the application that installed in the windows os. they're using visual basic application.
Now I have an application to control arduino from my pc via serial. I'm using visual basic to create the application.
My real question is, how do I control the arduino from my android, but send command to the application I created on pc.
Project Objective: Android ------> Application on pc(visual basic) -------> Arduino
The problem is from Android ------> Application on pc(visual basic). I just don't know how to do it. I searched, but nothing found.
There are several free RDP apps for the Android that will allow you to control you PC (over a local area network --- doing it over the WEB get a bit more expensive). I am have used Remote RDP Lite 4.2.4 with some success but to be honest I prefer to go sit in front of the 24 inch screen (I am old, senile and my eyes are weak).
If you want to develop a simple Android app check out SL4A Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.
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I've written a couple of Android apps and to be honest... it bugs the hell out of me, Java I dunno, it's almost like it's primary aim is to upset the programmer.
Without a Try / Except (catch routine) you can't do much, and all the Objects upon Objects, I mean really now... Object.ToiletPaper.Action.WiperMyButt(); ok i'm all for object orientated coding but come on
now......
Obviously, garbage collection, not worrying about releasing memory is a concern to, if Sun Microsystems thought "not disposing of objects" was a good thing, what's with the anal persistence of "try/except" for almost everything you do... if I as a programmer wished to purposely waste memory I'd like that option. It's like they went all out to make things easier but ended up making things a lot more complicated than needed to be...
Having said all that, using Eclipse there's some nice examples, ethernet(wifi),bluetooth.. I onced used Blueterm which connected to an Arduino via Bluetooth and i'd control it all from there...
SL4A hides all the Java stuff. You can use Python, Perl, JRuby etc etc ...
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cjdelphi:
I've written a couple of Android apps and to be honest... it bugs the hell out of me, Java I dunno, it's almost like it's primary aim is to upset the programmer.
Have you ever heard of "Lost In Stupid Parentheses"?