# Android app/Discord

**URL:** https://forum.makecode.com/t/android-app-discord/7696
**Category:** micro:bit
**Created:** [April 29, 2021, 4:52am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/android-app-discord/7696 "2021-04-29T04:52:17Z")
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@frank_schmidt @jane

The Yahboom Mbit app could be used with almost any MakeCode robot (or other project). (**By the way, I think Yahboom’s [Tiny:bit](https://category.yahboom.net/collections/mb-robotics/products/tinybit) is a good kit for the cost and they have lots of other promising products. Please consider some support to [Yahboom](https://category.yahboom.net/) rather than just using their app**)

Resources that are needed

- App:
  - [Android App](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yahboom.mbit&hl=en_US&gl=US) (I’ve only tested the iOS app)
  - [iOS App](https://apps.apple.com/cn/app/mbit/id1450346082?l=zh&ls=1)

- Yahboom’s Code (I give an example below)
  - [Hex File for Micro:bit V1](http://www.yahboom.net/xiazai/Tiny_bit/Download/microbit-Bluetooth-Control_20190523.hex)
  - [Hex file for Micro:bit V2](http://www.yahboom.net/xiazai/Tiny_bit/Download/Tinybit-Bluetooth-Control-V2.hex)

- Misc: Yahboom Tiny:bit references: [http://www.yahboom.net/study/Tiny:bit](http://www.yahboom.net/study/Tiny:bit) . (Links to all the above and more, including the “distance” reading, which sends data back to the app)

As for using the app:

- You can use MakeCode’s import process to import the hex file. You can then edit it to remove references to Yahboom’s Tiny:bit blocks (the `Car` blocks) and replace them with the blocks for your bot.
- Here’s an example that works with just a micro:bit (no robot). It displays the controller values on the LEDs. It supports directions and music. I removed the “mode selection” and “light color” to simplify it): [https://makecode.microbit.org/\_9ixPthV1LHT2](https://makecode.microbit.org/_9ixPthV1LHT2)

This sort of trick is possible with a lot of Micro:bit apps…they can be used “off-label” with a little review of how they work.

I hope that helps,  
Bill

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