ROS on Android Tutorials
Hi,
Im new to ROS and Android Programming and Java but I really would like to try out ROS on my Samsung Nexus-S.
I have been searching for information/tutorials on how to get it running, I have even intimidated googles with questions on Google+ to try to figure out what Im doing wrong,.
So I figured I would write down what I've done, and maybe someone can point out where I went wrong.
First. Im running Linux Ubuntu 11.04 on a VMWare fusion 3.1.3 on my MAC OSX 10.6.8.
I downloaded ros diamond back (the natty one) from ros.org and followed the installation guide at: http://www.ros.org/wiki/diamondback/I... . No problem here except that apt-get didn't find any configuration called: "ros-diamondback-desktop-full" so I used "ros-diamondback-desktop"
I ran through a few of the tutorials did some rosmake, roscd, rosls, rosrun etc.. worked fine.
The downloaded Eclipse from here http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ (I took the one for C++ and Linux) and tried to debug an step through the C++ tutorials from ROS. THat worked fine to.
I then downloaded Android SDK from here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/inst... . and the ADT plugin for eclipse.
I followed the Hello World tutorial, just to make sure I was http://developer.android.com/resource... able to get an app running on my phone.
First my phone wouldn't show up in my Linux running in Fusion, to fix that I had to modify the vmware config file. (located in the MAC file directory where I store my Virtual Machines.) The file does't show up in the Finder, but in a Terminal I did:
$ vi Ubuntu.vmwarevm/Ubuntu.vmx (my virtual machine is called Ubuntu)
In that file I added:
usb.quirks.device0 = "0x18d1:0x4e22 skip-reset"
At the end. I found the uid and vid by doing a:
$ tail -f Ubuntu.vmwavevm/wmare.log
and when inserting the phone the vid and uid showed up.
So now I can build/download/debug the Hello World Andriod App.
Next I created a folder ~/ros and added this to my ~/.bashrc in Linux:
source /opt/ros/diamondback/setup.bash export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=~/ros:$ROS_PACKAGE_PATH export PATH=~/andriod/android-sdk-linux_x86/tools:$PATH
Then I Googled for ROS Android and found: http://www.ros.org/wiki/android . I followed the directions on that page, and Installed SL4A and PY4A on my phone, but as I understand it now, I dont need anything of that. Python is the OLD way of running ROS on Android. What we want to do is run Java! (Actually I didn't get enythinhg work according to the this wiki).
Instead I found http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosjava and the Overview.
I read a bit and thought I needed ant to build stuff so I did a
$ sudo apt-get install ant.
(Actually I think I did that before the Android SDK installation, im not sure I needed to do that step ...
