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All, I have been messing around with rosjava and android and have successfully built a Android application that communicates with ROS using rosjava (I will be posting it on my blog soon www.stratom.com/blog). I created a main activity that extended RosActivity and everything worked great!

Now I am thinking about making more complex android application and will need my activity to extend AppCompatActivity and ROSActivity, I understand I cannot extend multiple classes and will need to build my own class that implements the functionality of ROSActivity but extends AppCompatActivity.

Has anyone done anything similar to this and have any documentation/references I can look at?

I assume I will need to forked the android_core and other dependencies but do not know how to include my local android_core repository into the Android Studio project build.gradle file.

Hopefully when I get this all sorted out I can post a tutorial so that others with the same intentions can implement with minimal head scratching.

I appreciate any help.

1. Forked rosjava_mvn_repo, android_core and rosjava (metapackage)

2. Cloned my rosjava_mvn_repo to ~/rosjava_mvn_repo

   git clone https://github.com/stratomda/rosjava_...

3. Exported my local maven repo variables

   export ROS_MAVEN_REPOSITORY=file://home/username/rosjava_mvn_repo

   export ROS_MAVEN_DEPLOYMENT_REPOSITORY=/home/username/rosjava_mvn_repo

4. Installed necessary ros-indigo dependencies

   sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-ros-java-build-tools

   sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-warehouse-ros

5. Build android_core library source with modified code

   mkdir -p ~/android

   wstool init -j4 ~/android/src https://raw.githubusercontent.com/str...

   cd ~/android

   catkin_make

6. Staged and commited/pushed artifact changes to forked maven repo

   cd ~/rosjava_mvn_repo

   ./update_maven_repo

Note: When i perform Step 6, the update script does not list any android_core .aar files as upgraded or new which makes me believe my updates in the android_10 library did not get built.

1. Pull in repository artifacts into Android Project using build.gradle

   repositories { maven { url 'https://github.com/stratomda/rosjava_mvn_repo/raw/master' } }

2. Add android_core dependencies to build.gradle

compile('org.ros.android_core:android_10:0.2.0') { exclude group: 'junit' exclude group: 'xml-apis' }

The project syncs/builds fine but my changes are not included in android_10 external libraries.

Any ideas? Why would the changes not be included in the build when using catkin_make?

[Edit] If I bump the version number in the android_core/package.xml file and run catkin_make the new version aar file is added to the maven repository and everything works. Is there a way I do not have to bump the version number every time I add something in order for it to work?