Receiveing MIDI by USB on an Android device

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Hi everyone. I've been making an Arduino MIDI controller as a lot of people already have done. The main difference in my one is that I require the data to be received by an Android phone. Using MIDI Scope on Android I can see the Arduino getting detected as an external device but no data MIDI is detected as input (seen below).

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MIDI is being succesfully received on my Windows PC and I can play notes on my DAW with no issue. I am using an Arduino Micro and the MIDIUSB library for MIDI over USB transmission. I don't believe my code matters to this issue since I know it works on a Windows PC but if it is needed please let me know and I will post it. Thank you in advance!

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Be sure to use a USB OTG to USB host cable. This is the same cable needed to connect USB keyboard to an Android phone.

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Hi thanks for the reply! Would something like this work then?

And I would connect the USB C side to my phone, then use a Micro-USB to USB cable to connect to it?

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Yes, I think both will work.

And I would connect the USB C side to my phone, then use a Micro-USB to USB cable to connect to it?

Yes, that I what I would do.

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Okay I will order the adapters and let you know. I thought newer devices didn't need USB OTG cables.

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Nevermind! I fixed it by using the USB-MIDI library instead of MIDIUSB. I don't know what differences they have but it worked!!! Thank you for your replies.

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