DroidPlanner looking for Testers

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Thanks Arthur.

I'm very much a novice at this but from what I read it seems that the core of the problem is that Amazon wouldn't sign an agreement with Google that would've allowed the Fire users to access the Google store. Makes sense. Amazon has their own store and would want to send their users someplace else.

There are walkthroughs on how to make this happen and there are (apparently) root hacks that can accomplish the same thing. We'll see how far I can get with this or if it even works at all. It's entirely possible that I may drop out but what's the harm in trying? If I can get close maybe this will open an entirely new set of devices for Droid Planner to get installed onto! :-)

By the way, what are most people installing this onto?

-Mike

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Arthur Benemann July 26, 2013 at 9:16am

@Thomas J Coyle III

Thanks, I'll take a look
Admin

Thomas J Coyle III July 26, 2013 at 5:44am

@Arthur,

You should check out this member's issue when attempting to use DroidPlanner: http://www.diydrones.com/forum/topics/help-arducopter-v-3-0-1-can-t...

Regards,

TCIII Admin
Stone1295 July 25, 2013 at 11:47am

The actual error is:

Parse error

There is a problem parsing the package.

I'm going to continue to mess around a bit but there's no sense diverting any more of the community's time away from the work you're doing!

Thanks for the help Arthur. I'll post up if I make any significant breakthroughs.

-Mike
Stone1295 July 25, 2013 at 11:42am

Well I get a parser error. :-)

In any case, I'm running the original Fire which is running 2.3. Looks like a lost cause. :-)

-Mike
Developer

Arthur Benemann July 25, 2013 at 11:23am

@Stone1295

No problem, I just warned to try to save a headache.

By the way, what are most people installing this onto?

Here is a screenshot of Google Play:
Stone1295 July 25, 2013 at 11:09am

Thanks Arthur.

I'm very much a novice at this but from what I read it seems that the core of the problem is that Amazon wouldn't sign an agreement with Google that would've allowed the Fire users to access the Google store. Makes sense. Amazon has their own store and would want to send their users someplace else.

There are walkthroughs on how to make this happen and there are (apparently) root hacks that can accomplish the same thing. We'll see how far I can get with this or if it even works at all. It's entirely possible that I may drop out but what's the harm in trying? If I can get close maybe this will open an entirely new set of devices for Droid Planner to get installed onto! :-)

By the way, what are most people installing this onto?

-Mike
Developer

Arthur Benemann July 25, 2013 at 10:06am

@Stone1295

I wish google had made this easier, so you could use the community or the link to join the test, sadly that isn't the way it works. Or maybe I mistakenly read the documentation.

What version of Android do you have there? If you can't download via the Play store probably you don't have one of the requirements in your device.
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Arthur Benemann July 25, 2013 at 10:03am

@Chris Riccio

You have to join the community, and then sign-in at the link.

@ David Gitz:

Nice, you are welcome to request any modifications needed. One thing that we got in DP is that it's written only in Java, and that gives a smaller initial step for people. That's why we have about 4 guys working on the code now.
Stone1295 July 25, 2013 at 7:47am

I'm in now. Arthur was correct in my case; I hadn't joined the DroidPlanner community so once I did that I was able to click on the link and get to the "Become a Tester" page.

I haven't gotten any further than that because I'm going to try to load it up on a Kindle Fire and right now I'm getting the error "No compatible devices". I'll try side-loading today and see how far I get! :-)

-Mike
David Gitz July 25, 2013 at 7:46am

I just started working on integrating this with a ROS node communicating over MAVLink (over TCP, but maybe UDP as well). I'm also looking at Andropilot.

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