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Building Existing Android Apps
Description: Installation and build instructions for existing TurtleBot Android applications.Keywords: Android applications installation TurtleBot
Tutorial Level: BEGINNER
Next Tutorial: Create a Robot App
Contents
Overview
This tutorial shows how to download sources for building existing turtlebot android apps.
Installation
There are two ways to get and install the sources depending on whether you want to work in a fused ros-studio environment or just an android studio environment.
Ros Environment
This lets you download all the source stacks together and manage the compile easily with catkin.
Follow the android installation instructions.
- Make sure you use the android_apps rosinstaller.
- Add the turtlebot_android stack to your source workspace:
> cd ~/android/src/ > wstool set turtlebot_android --git https://github.com/turtlebot/turtlebot_android.git --version=hydro-devel > wstool update turtlebot_android
Note that you can still import the stacks individually into Android Studio once you've done this initial build.
Android Studio Environment
Import one stack at a time into Android Studio and just work with that (mostly of interest will be android_core, android_apps, turtlebot_android and android_remocons stacks).
Download and install the new android studio+sdk.
- Clone the repository you want to build, e.g.
> git clone https://github.com/rosjava/android_apps
Open android studio and import the project
Installing and Uninstalling
Command Line
An example for the follower app:
# Look in the build folder for the apk file; note that you can only install debug versions of unsigned apps > adb -d install -r ./src/turtlebot_android/follower/build/apk/follower-debug-unsigned.apk # The name for uninstalling comes from bin/AndroidManifest.xml > adb uninstall com.github.turtlebot.turtlebot_android.follower
Android Studio
Some simple instructions here.
Try the Apps
PC
Assuming you have a fully installed appable turtlebot, launch the bootstrap configuration:
> rocon_launch turtlebot_bringup bringup.concert
Android
Install the follower app via Android Studio or command line to your device (see above how to do this).
Launch the app and connect to a turtlebot configured with a publicly known ROS_MASTER_URI and ROS_HOSTNAME.
What's Next?
Create a Robot App for Pairing or return to TurtleBot main page.
If you're interested in building your own apps for robot-android pairing, you may want to also check the rocon_app_platform pages for more detailed information and tutorials.
