Porting Andropilot (joystick) to Windows Tablet

Posted by Daniel B on November 18, 2013 at 10:13am

Greetings.

I've found very useful using the virtual RC sticks (joysticks) that I'm wondering if it'll be a good value add and easy to port AndroPilot to a tablet running Windows 7 (got one ;).

(Another option of course, is to add these joysticks features on Mission Planner.)

Any thoughts?

Cheers.

Daniel

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    Kevin Hester November 18, 2013 at 10:35am

    Hi Daniel,


    Andropilot is actually written with the intent for it to be easily portable to any machine that can run Java.  However, for a windows tablet if I was trying to port a GCS I'd recommend the following options (in decreasing order of preference):

    • Mission Planner is C#/.net and probably can be ported without too much pain.  (You would need to add new joystick classes, because MP doesn't understand this yet)
    • The new APM planner app I think is in QT, if so, it is probably not too bad to port to windows tablets (but you'd need to add the joystick code)
    • Andropilot - The 'android' portion is only a thin GUI shell on the 'common' portion.  See the README.md in the root of the github project and feel free to ask me with any questions.  But I'd recommend starting from copying the (bare) posixpilot command line app, then using a windowing framework like Swing or SWT to add windows.
    • Droidplanner - I don't think you would find porting this app particularly easy - it has the android bits pretty intermingled with the other bits.
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