Re: [ros-users] RFC: rviz on Android

We don't have any IOS plans that I know of.

We've focused on Android for our mobile and tablet development because of
its openness and because a bunch of nice infrastructure has been written
and continues to be written for Android (ROS-Java and ROS-Android) (
http://code.google.com/p/rosjava/) by Damon Kohler and others at Google.

Dave

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 9:31 AM, It's My Robot! <itsmyrobot@gmail.com>wrote:

> Will you be working on an IOS (apple iphone/ipad) version?
>
>
>
> Op 20 apr. 2012 om 18:26 heeft Dave Hershberger <hersh@willowgarage.com>
> het volgende geschreven:
>
> I have an intern coming this summer who will be working on
> rviz-for-android. If people would like to help out, I'm sure we could find
> pieces for others to work on.
>
> I totally agree with Damon that it should not be a port of rviz but rather
> a rewrite which takes Android and the phone/tablet environment into account
> from the start.
>
> Dave
>
> On Apr 20, 2012 5:27 AM, "Ryan Gariepy" <rgariepy@clearpathrobotics.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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