On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Dariush Forouher wrote: > Hi all, > > Working with a mobile robot I sometimes dream of having a tablet running > rviz, that would visualize all the data and had a nice touchscreen interface > for moving and stuff. > > * Is someone already working on this or has worked in the past? The android_core stack is evolving toward something like rviz. However, rather than focusing on a single rviz-like application, the focus is on creating Android Views that could be combined to build it. One example is the VisualizationView: http://code.google.com/p/rosjava/source/browse/android_honeycomb_mr2/src/org/ros/android/view/visualization/VisualizationView.java?repo=android > * What would be the best approach? Reimplement everything or >  try to adapt rviz_qt to run on Android? I think re-implementing everything with Android in mind is the best approach. Attempting a direct port will probably lead to inflexibility and sub-optimal performance. There are a lot of additional considerations when working on mobile devices that, as a desktop application, rviz does not need to take into account. > * What features would be the most interesting? I've been focusing primarily on mapping, other point-like visualizations, and 2D camera control for now. Once the views are in place, building a flexible app, like rviz, that can be configured at run time to show arbitrary topic data should be straight forward. > cheers > Dariush > -- > Institut für Technische Informatik / Universität zu Lübeck > http://www.iti.uni-luebeck.de/mitarbeiter/dariush-forouher-m-sc.html > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > -- ---------------------------------------------- Damon Kohler Software Engineer Google Germany GmbH Dienerstr. 12 80331 München ---------------------------------------------- AG Hamburg, HRB 86891 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg Geschäftsführer: Graham Law, Katherine Stephens ---------------------------------------------- Diese E-Mail ist vertraulich. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind, leiten Sie diese bitte nicht weiter, informieren den Absender und löschen Sie die E-Mail und alle Anhänge. Vielen Dank. This email is confidential. If you are not the right addressee please do not forward it, please inform the sender, and please erase this e-mail including any attachments. Thanks.