ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

Installing the ROS-Android interface

If all the dependencies are satisfied, you can easily build the ROS-Android interface and build a bunch of Android-ROS applications. Here is how we can do that:

Initially, we have to create a workspace folder for the Android interface. We can name it android_core:

    $ mkdir -p ~/android_core

After creating this folder, you can initialize the workspace using the following command:

    wstool init -j4 ~/android_core/src https://raw.github.com/rosjava/rosjava/indigo/android_core.rosinstall

Now switch to the workspace and build the workspace using catkin_make:

    $ cd ~/android_core
    $ catkin_make

After building the workspace successfully, you can source it by adding it to .bashrc:

    $ echo 'source ~/android_core ...