Announcement from Prof. Dr. Matthias Kranz of TUM
The team of the Distributed Multimodal Information Processing Group of Technische Universität München (TUM) is pleased to announce that we ported rospy to run on Android-based mobile devices.
Python for Android on top of the Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A) serves as basis for our rospy project. We extended the scripting layer, added new support for ctypes and other requirements. Now, rospy, roslib and the std_msgs are working and running on a roscore, directly on your mobile phone. To configure a roscore on a standard computer to cooperate with the roscore on the Android, you simple scan a QR code on the computer's screen to autoconfigure the smartphone. Basic support for OpenCV and the image topics is also included. You are welcome to extend the current state of our work.
You will need a current Version of the Scripting Layer (v3) and the newer Python for Android with the possibility to import custom modules. You can use every Android device able to run the SL4A. In general you be able to run it on every recent Android powered device. You will not harm your phone at all, even no root access is needed to run ROS on your device.
You can find our code, basic documentation and a video in our repository and on ROS.org.
A small video showcasing how to control a ROS-based cognitive intelligent environment via an Android-based smartphone is available here.
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