Modified by blinry to send instructions to a compass belt.
This Android app provides a line-oriented terminal / console for devices with a serial / UART interface connected with a USB-to-serial-converter.
It supports USB to serial converters based on
- FTDI FT232, FT2232, ...
- Prolific PL2303
- Silabs CP2102, CP2105, ...
- Qinheng CH340, CH341
and devices implementing the USB CDC protocol like
- Arduino using ATmega32U4
- Digispark using V-USB software USB
- BBC micro:bit using ARM mbed DAPLink firmware
- permission handling on device connection
- foreground service to buffer receive data while the app is rotating, in background, ...
The app uses the usb-serial-for-android library.
I got various requests asking for help with Android development or source code for my Serial USB Terminal app. Here you find a simplified version of my app.