Have you taken a look at wviz? (http://ros.org/wiki/wviz)

-Ryan

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Damon Kohler <damonkohler@google.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Dariush Forouher
> <forouher@iti.uni-luebeck.de> 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
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