Playing with ROS-Android applications

In this section, we will see how to install the ROS-Android application generated from the preceding build process on your Android phone.

Let's take the android_core folder and search for .apk files; you may get a bunch of applications, as shown in the following figure:

Playing with ROS-Android applications

Figure 25: List of generated APK files

You can copy the APK files and install them on your phone.

Troubleshooting

You may get errors while installing these APK files. One of the errors is shown in the following screenshot:

Troubleshooting

Figure 26: Parse error ...

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