Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio and android

[Tom Rondeau]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Volker Schroer <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi!
I watched the development of gnuradio for android. But I'm not very familiar with java, so I searched for a way to run gnuradio python scripts without or with little modifications on android.

I detected the python_for_android project and wrote some recipes to run gnuradio on android.

For those who are interested , see:
https://github.com/dl1ksv/python-for-android

At the moment I'm able to run things like

dial_tone or an fm receiver using the rtl dongle.

But there are a lot of things missing,  in particular a gui, support of fcd(pro+), etc.

So my question: Where to go from here: Introducing kivy to gnuradio for building gui's , or migrating qt5 ( a way I'd prefer )
Or is this only a nice finger exercise and of no special interest ?

Comments are welcome

-- Volker

Volker,

This is awesome that you're working on this and sharing your progress. Two things.

First, I think the QT5 way is where you'd want to go. We will be migrating there, anyways, likely for the 3.8 release. Having done some work recently on the gr_filter_design tool in QT4/5, it's not a huge amount of work to go between them. We'll likely do this work off the next branch for the next API version release. Anything you can contribute to this effort would be great.

As to Python, I'm skeptical how fruitful this path really is. If it's just for your own stuff, that's one thing, but Android is Java, love it or hate it. Trying to work too far away from their structure of work is dangerous, since they can decide at any moment to just kill certain efforts -- I'm a little afraid of this myself with our reliance on the NDK, even.

I'm in the boat of learning Java myself to work in this world. Easier that than trying to force other modes of operation onto this beast.

Tom