I would really like to know if I can get my Samsung Android tablet to let me download my coding ( sketch) from the Arduino Cloud program.
I have an adapter that allows me to connect both devices, the tablet and the Arduino, together. I can run Arduino Cloud and create sketches; I just cannot get it to transfer the sketch to the Arduino.
As you can tell, I am very new to this. I have a tablet and smartphone, no PC or laptop, and wish to use them together to do my school project with lights and sound.
As long as your tablet can connect to the internet and has a browser you are fine. You will be using the cloud editor, you can't download to anything other than the Arduino IDE and to my knowledge that only runs on Win, Mac, Linux. No need to connect the Arduino to the Tablet, not sure what that would accomplish.
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FYI, the term used in the Arduino world for transferring a sketch program to an Arduino board is "upload", not "download". In order to avoid confusion, please make sure to use the term "upload" when you are talking about this concept on Arduino Forum.
As for uploading sketches to an Arduino board from an Android device, I don't know of any way to do that using Arduino Cloud. I think it would be a good idea for you to try to think of some way to get access to a real computer for the development of your project.
If your only option is the tablet, there is a 3rd party Android app that some Arduino community users use. That app doesn't have any integration with Arduino Cloud, so you would use it separately from Arduino Cloud. If you want to develop sketches in Arduino Cloud Editor, you can download the sketches to the storage on your tablet, and then use the 3rd party app to upload the sketch program to your Arduino board.
I don't have any experience with the app, so I can't say how useful it might be. Some of the other forum helpers might be able to provide more information on that subject.
Thank you; this has been really helpful. I have a basic knowledge of circuits, but programming them is my next step. So glad of any help. I used a school kit last week, but my own kit arrives on Monday. I am going to work through the tutorials; the end goal is to create a temperature sensor and LED traffic lights for my tortoise enclosure. Thanks you for all the help and info
To add to what @ptillisch said, unless someone corrects me:
If you are sending data from your computer to some other device then that is 'uploading'.
If you are getting data from some other device into your computer that is 'downloading'.
In the case of putting a program from the Arduino IDE into an Arduino board you are sending the program (data) from your computer to the Arduino, so that is uploading.
