Cool! Can you add it to the wiki? -j On Oct 12, 2012 7:16 AM, "Jon Stephan" wrote: > In case you're interested, I managed to get ROS running on Ubuntu on > Android on my phone (a Motorola Droid Bionic). I'm not sure how useful > this would be to anyone, but it's kind of neat. > > I did have some build errors when "Building the higher-level/tools (Layer > 2)", but roscore, turtlesim, rxconsole, rxgraph, and rxplot work. > > An overview of the steps: > - Rooted my phone. > - Install the Terminal Emulator program from the Google Play app store. > - Downloaded "Complete Linux Installer" from the Google Play app store. > - Used that to download and install Ubuntu (large version). > - Followed the guide in the Complete Linux Installer (unziped the image, > and moved it) > - I had to make the .img file bigger because there was not enough space > for ROS (in the terminal, outside of Ubuntu: cd /mnt/sdcard/ubuntu; dd > if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1000000 >> ubuntu.img) > - Followed the instructions on the ROS Debian install page. > - Had to change a couple of lines in turtle.cpp to get it to compile > (needed to typecast a constant to qword in the std::max function call) > - As per > http://answers.ros.org/question/36890/unable-to-find-swigswg-and-unable-to-find-pythonswg/, > had to cp -r /swig /usr/local/share. > > It's slow, but it seems to be faster than the Rasperry Pi. > > Screenshot: screenshot > > -Jon > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > >