This guide assumes you have read and understood the concepts in the Guest Science Readme. It also assumes you are familar with Java and IDEs.
Guest Science APKs run on the HLP. Most guest scientists will not have access to a HLP board for APK development. Thus, the Astrobee team supports 3 ways guest scientists can develop their APKs: java only, an Android emulator, or a HLP development board. If you don't have a development board, we recommend following the Android emulator instructions as an Android emulator will be the closest thing to running on the robot. However the emulator can be resource intensive. So if you do not have a high performance machine or if you want simpler/quicker development (i.e. don't want to learn Android), we recommend using our java only framework. If you use java only, please skip down to the running a guest science application section. If you are lucky and have an HLP board, we recommend following the HLP development board instructions.
Please download Android Studio, it's recommended that you download version 4.1.2 from Android Studio's archives, and extract it into your home directory. Run the following line in the shell to start the IDE (Integrated Development Environment):
android-studio/bin/studio.shAndroid Studio will proceed to download several other packages and updates. You may wish to add Android Studio's scripts to your PATH variable so that it can be used more easily.
If you don't have Android Studio, please see 1.1.
To setup a full simulation environment with an Android emulator, follow the emulator instructions.
If you don't have Android Studio, please see 1.1.
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Please see the running a guest science application documentation for how to run a guest science example.
Please see the creating a guest science application documentation for how to set up your own guest science APK.