
This is often called a USB to GO cable or adapter. Normally Android devices connect as Peripherals which means they need to have a cable adapter or settings change to enable them to be USB Host devices. For this to work, the Pad or device must see the Pi as a Peripheral. Your USB cable must be of the correct "sex". There are three complications to the connection process. $ sed -i '' 's/quiet/quiet modules-load=dwc2,g_ether/' cmdline.txt This does no harm if the driver is not loaded and is a nice routine add to your list of personalizations when making a new card. With the memory mounted, append the line dtoverlay=dwc2 to config.txt and add modules-load=dwc2,g_ether to the kernel argument list in cmdline.txt: If you are happily using a tablet with wifi, the only changes needed are to enable the driver in the pi and figure out its IP address or network name.
