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Hi - I installed Kinetic on Ubuntu 16.04 on an armhf device (Raspberry Pi 3). There does not appear to be a move_base package available: http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/di... . There is ros-kinetic-move-base-msgs, but no ros-kinetic-move-base.

However, there is a move_base for amd64: http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/di... .

Would it be possible to add an armhf move_base package to the repos?

Thanks, Zach

That makes total sense, I hope they add armhf support soon. In the meantime, is it possible to build the ROS Docker images for armhf on our own infrastructure? Has anyone successfully built the images for armhf?

Hi - I'm really excited to see the ROS Docker images! https://hub.docker.com/u/osrf/

The ROS images are currently based on the x86 ubuntu:trusty image. I see there's an osrf/ubuntu_armhf image, but are there any plans to provide ROS images that are armhf-based, in addition to x86?

I'm really interested in running ROS in Docker containers on Beaglebone Black, but need armhf-based images to do that.

Thanks, Zach

The links you provided eventually led me to this Android Studio Development Environment tutorial http://wiki.ros.org/android/Tutorials/hydro/Installation%20-%20Android%20Studio%20Development%20Environment which I must have somehow overlooked before. That was exactly the setup I was looking for. Thanks!

Hi - my goal is to build a very simple Android app that will run on my phone (HTC ONE M8) and will:

1. Connect to a remote ROS master on the same network
2. Publish Int16 messages to two separate topics

Ideally, I'd like to just create a new project in Android Studio and add dependencies to ros android libs from some external maven repository, and then use things like RosActivity and NodeMain in my project. I'd rather not have to build any ros-android or rosjava libs from source myself. Really want to just keep things as simple as possible here.

Is it possible to do this? I can't find any simple instructions on how to do the above anywhere on wiki.ros.org , and have failed miserably trying to follow the various android setup/build instructions that are on wiki.ros.org .

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Zach

Hi - I have a differential drive robot based on the BeagleBone Black (it's actually the robot built for a Coursera course). I'd really like to use the diff_drive_controller, but there isn't a debian package in the ARM repo. The BBB has Ubuntu 13.04 and ROS Hydro on it.

Any idea why that specific package is absent from the ARM repo?

I did try to build diff_drive_controller myself on the BBB but ran into other problems. I'd rather stick with official binaries though, if possible.

Also - I tried to include links to a lot of the items mentioned above but I don't have enough karma - sorry for that. :(

Thanks, Zach