[ros-users] RFC: rviz on Android

[Dave Hershberger]

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 at 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 at google.com>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Dariush Forouher
>> <forouher at 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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