Using MQTT on Android via MQTT Dash

If you are not using an Android smartphone, feel free to skip this section.

MQTT Dash is an MQTT client for Android that is all about creating dashboards. You can have various dashboards that display incoming information (of topics you subscribed to) and where you can choose from a range of user interface widgets, which make publishing data very easy:

  1. First, we need to install MQTT Dash. You can find it in the Android Play Store using its name, MQTT Dashor using this link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.routix.mqttdash
  2. Once the installation has finished, run the app.

Setting up MQTT Dash and subscribing to the /tims-channel/cube/activity topic is very straightforward.

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