# Particle + App Interface?

**URL:** <https://community.particle.io/t/particle-app-interface/42903>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [July 8, 2018, 7:05am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/particle-app-interface/42903 "2018-07-08T07:05:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![ScruffR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/scruffr/32/6952_2.png) [@ScruffR](https://community.particle.io/u/ScruffR)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 8:05am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/particle-app-interface/42903/4 "2018-07-08T08:05:42Z")

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It denpends on what exactly you are after and how much experience you have in building Android Apps.  
The simplest solution - apart from using Tinker - may be using Blynk.

Everybody is learning differently, but in my experience, following step-by-step tutorials doesn't always help actually getting things to stick in my mind. The stuff that I find out myself is usually the stuff I will remember the best.  
e.g. I had virtually no experience in developing an Android App, so I just took the Tinker App source code, ploughed through it, located the places where I thought things must happen, read through the code to get a feeling for what they did there and why, and that allowed me to extend the Tinker App in a way that suited my desires better

> [@Extended Android Spark Tinker App (RGB LED & RX/TX pins, configurable API server)](https://community.particle.io/t/extended-android-spark-tinker-app-rgb-led-rx-tx-pins-configurable-api-server/2899):
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> Thanks @zachary for open sourcing spark android-app. It was a good incentive and a precious entry point for me to get my local toolchain and an Android IDE (both with Eclipse) up and running on my tablet wink As a first output of this I’ve extended your Spark Tinker app and the Tinker FW a bit so that the Core’s RX/TX pins can be digitalRead/digitalWritten and also the RGB-LED got its dedicated controls [[Particle ExtTinkerApp Demo] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V553WYm-kpI) And this would be the required [Tinker Firmwar…](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/60050879/TinkerFW.txt)

However, the Android SDK repository does now fearture a simpler template app to start off of.

> <https://github.com/particle-iot/spark-sdk-android/tree/master/example_app/src/main/java/io/particle/cloudsdk/example_app>
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> //github.com/particle-iot/spark-sdk-android/tree/master/example\_app/src/main/java/io/particle/cloudsdk/example\_app

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