Need help with connecting HM-10 with my android smart phone

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Hello, I'm quite new with arduino and related projects. I'm trying to build a RC car from scratch. I'm using arduino UNO and a HM-10 bluetooth module for that purpose. However, the HM-10 bluetooth module is not showing up in my phone when searched. So I did a bit googling and found out that some versions of android does not find HM-10 by default. However, it can be found with BLE scanner. So I downloaded BLE scanner and could connect to my HM-10 perfectly. I also succeeded in communicating between the HC-05 and my phone to send messages, in other words, could read and write data.

Now my concern is this, I want to build my own app to control the arduino over the HM-10 module. I have already built an app to control a single LED through bluetooth. But just like I said, my phone can only connect to HM-10 over BLE scanner app. So my question is this, is there any way I can configure my HM-10 so that it appears in my phone like a normal bluetooth device? Or is there any alternative way that I can use to connect the app I built to connect to the HM-10? Thanks in advance.

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background information about HM-10 and Android that you need to read : Should you throw away your CC41 HM-10 clones now that Android 8 is here? | Arik Yavilevich's blog

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kabir5296:
I want to build my own app to control the arduino over the HM-10 module. I have already built an app to control a single LED through bluetooth. But just like I said, my phone can only connect to HM-10 over BLE scanner app. So my question is this, is there any way I can configure my HM-10 so that it appears in my phone like a normal bluetooth device? Or is there any alternative way that I can use to connect the app I built to connect to the HM-10?

There is an online app making software called MIT App Inventor (http://ai2.appinventor.mit.edu/) which supports BLE and other IoT modules. Documentation an be found at MIT App Inventor + Internet of Things. There is also a very long guide at Arduino, HM-10 and App Inventor 2 – Martyn Currey as to how to get a HM-10 module to interact with an Arduino via I/O pins.

A template for an app can be found in the description of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PINCucGRhA8. (It is the .aia file). I assume you must be using servos to control the RC car as well as motors. Fortunately, the I/O pins can support PWM (also according to the video description).

Hope this helps.