I would certainly be interested in helping out. I did a somewhat-iOS capable ROS bridge based on a 3rd party app for the iPhone and iPad, but I don't know that it's really a suitable long term solution.<div><br></div>
<div>I, too, was considering something along the lines of rosbridge for a more fully-featured cross platform "app" (which could support any web enabled device).</div><div><br></div><div>I think that if a "mobile ROS" is done, it should be with the goal to be as cross platform as possible. I understand this becomes cumbersome when it comes to Rviz, but for most of the other interesting day-to-day information, widgets and text should cover it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>~mc<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 13:00, Dave Hershberger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hersh@willowgarage.com">hersh@willowgarage.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
er, I meant he's starting in May and I hope that in *June* we'll be ready to farm out the Display subclass work.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font></span><div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Dave</font></span><div>
<div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Dave Hershberger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hersh@willowgarage.com" target="_blank">hersh@willowgarage.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">That's great, thanks. The project is supposed to start sometime in May when my intern arrives. Hopefully sometime in April we'll be ready to start writing Display classes, which is the place that looks easiest (to me) to farm out different pieces of work. All Displays are subclasses of the Display class and they all use the same APIs do their various work, and there are about 20 of them.<div>
<br></div><div>It will also be great to have people testing and reporting bugs in different use cases we might not see in-house.</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Dave</div></font></span><div>
<div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:37 AM, blackstag <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:blackstag@gmail.com" target="_blank">blackstag@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dave when this happens let me know I can see how we can help you with some resources from the DPRG.<div>
<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Dave Hershberger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hersh@willowgarage.com" target="_blank">hersh@willowgarage.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p><span><font color="#888888">
<p>Dave</p></font></span><div><div><p>On Apr 20, 2012 5:27 AM, "Ryan Gariepy" <<a href="mailto:rgariepy@clearpathrobotics.com" target="_blank">rgariepy@clearpathrobotics.com</a>> wrote:</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Have you taken a look at wviz? (<a href="http://ros.org/wiki/wviz" target="_blank">http://ros.org/wiki/wviz</a>)<div><br></div><div>-Ryan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Damon Kohler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:damonkohler@google.com" target="_blank">damonkohler@google.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Dariush Forouher<br>
<<a href="mailto:forouher@iti.uni-luebeck.de" target="_blank">forouher@iti.uni-luebeck.de</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
><br>
> Working with a mobile robot I sometimes dream of having a tablet running<br>
> rviz, that would visualize all the data and had a nice touchscreen interface<br>
> for moving and stuff.<br>
><br>
> * Is someone already working on this or has worked in the past?<br>
<br>
</div>The android_core stack is evolving toward something like rviz.<br>
However, rather than focusing on a single rviz-like application, the<br>
focus is on creating Android Views that could be combined to build it.<br>
<br>
One example is the VisualizationView:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/rosjava/source/browse/android_honeycomb_mr2/src/org/ros/android/view/visualization/VisualizationView.java?repo=android" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/rosjava/source/browse/android_honeycomb_mr2/src/org/ros/android/view/visualization/VisualizationView.java?repo=android</a><br>
<div><br>
> * What would be the best approach? Reimplement everything or<br>
> try to adapt rviz_qt to run on Android?<br>
<br>
</div>I think re-implementing everything with Android in mind is the best<br>
approach. Attempting a direct port will probably lead to<br>
inflexibility and sub-optimal performance.<br>
<br>
There are a lot of additional considerations when working on mobile<br>
devices that, as a desktop application, rviz does not need to take<br>
into account.<br>
<div><br>
> * What features would be the most interesting?<br>
<br>
</div>I've been focusing primarily on mapping, other point-like<br>
visualizations, and 2D camera control for now. Once the views are in<br>
place, building a flexible app, like rviz, that can be configured at<br>
run time to show arbitrary topic data should be straight forward.<br>
<div><br>
> cheers<br>
> Dariush<br>
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