cocoTello Drone Controller Android
This is an application to control a Ryze Tech Tello EDU drone using an Android device with virtual joysticks written in Kotlin using the Jetpack Compose framework. The 3.0 SDK provided by Ryze Tech was used to create a wrapper class to interact with the robot over WIFI UDP. Video-streaming is functional.
Features
- Live-stream video-feed from the front-facing camera.
- Control roll, pitch, throttle, and yaw from virtual joysticks.
- Track the time-of-flight, determined behind-the-scenes by the difference in the time of a successful landing and a successful takeoff.
- Receive in-flight data (speed, height, position).
Future Features
- Output in-flight data, time-of-flight, to a DynamoDB database.
- Add some sort of team / competition system.
- Save videos taken during flight.
- Upload saved videos to an S3 Bucket.
Running This Application
From an APK (easy)
https://github.com/Tyler-Lopez/TelloDroneControllerAndroid/blob/main/tellodronecontroller.apk
Open this link on your phone to install the pre-built application directly.
Building the Application Yourself (hard)
- If not yet downloaded, download the latest version of Android Studio.
- Download this repository and extract it.
- Open the extracted folder in Android Studio.
- Once Gradle builds the project, either run it on an emulated device or by connecting a physical device by USB.
References
Tello SDK 3.0 User Guide https://dl.djicdn.com/downloads/RoboMaster+TT/Tello_SDK_3.0_User_Guide_en.pdf
Medium Article on another dev's experience making a Tello controller based in XML https://medium.com/@jithin8mathew/building-an-android-application-to-control-tello-drone-flight-and-perform-real-time-object-ab953f6c5f5b