Using Android Studios to develop an app for NBIOT with the Thingy devices

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Hi all! 
 I'm in the process of trying to put together an nb-iot app on Android studios that would communicate with data from the Thingy 91 board. I've been trying to go through the different libraries on Jetpack Compose for Android Studios and there is the LowPan Package. 
 developer.android.com/.../package-summary 
 However, I've been having some issues implementing the package and can't find any examples on the internet of projects that use this package as well. If anyone has any experience working with this I would love some advice on where to start/what good resources there are for this? 
 Thanks!

Michal · Accepted Answer

witch_mountain said: the two devices won't be able to communicate when they are on the same network 
 Well, they would be able to communicate in a similar way to how two mobile phones can communicate over the internet. You cannot really do a direct communication without some kind of web server (or MQTT or LwM2M) in between the two. 
 Technically you could use raw sockets and have your device listen, but you would need to do all the things like finding out the IP address etc. 
 witch_mountain said: Are mobile phones like an samsung unable to support nb_iot as a whole? 
 You cannot use an NB IoT SIM card on a phone, but you can communicate via the internet, as I have written above. 
 witch_mountain said: The better way to describe what I'm doing is trying to send commands to the Thingy via a phone application that would generate GPS data that is sent to nRF Cloud which is able to be displayed on this same application? 
 You can either have your application send a command to nRF Cloud, which then sends a command to the Thingy, or connect to the Thingy locally via Bluetooth LE (with UART bridge as you said, yes) and then have Thingy send the data to nRF Cloud. 
 Best regards, 
 Michal

Using Android Studios to develop an app for NBIOT with the Thingy devices

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