[Scouting] Introducing FRC Krawler Scouting App v2.0

[Adam8234]

After a fall of hard work, Team 2052 KnightKrawler is excited to announce the release of the newest version of FRC Krawler. A powerful scouting system for Android. With most of the app coded from straight up, the app has seen some dramatic changes. It’s robust, fast, and a reliable scouting system made to be used year after year. Check it out! http://goo.gl/8Fs1tE Hope you like it!

Take a look at some screenshots: http://www.team2052.com/frckrawler

FRC Krawler allows you to define your own metrics. Metrics are used as a unit of measurement that you can customize to your liking.

In this version there are four types of metrics:

• Boolean
• Counter
• Slider
• Chooser

All these metrics are very flexible. So you shouldn't have a problem with this small set of metrics from year to year.

FRC Krawler is a bluetooth based scouting system. Once a scouter has synced with the server device, all the data is stored locally on it. The scouter can make changes to the data and re-sync to save the data on the server device. No need to keep track of USB sticks or keep a spreadsheet handy on a laptop, and, especially with this years game, it's eco friendly. No need for papers! If you need to evaluate the data faster. FRC Krawler supports Excel exporting, so you can pull it up on your computer.

Please post feedback (bugs, concerns, metric ideas) you might have in this thread or join our beta testing group to post bugs, test the latest features, and see what's coming up in the upcoming versions of FRC Krawler.

FRC Krawler uses The Blue Alliance to get event information, match information, and attending teams. If we didn't have such a great API provided by them, most of this would be a lot harder for our users. Team 2052 wants to thank The Blue Alliance for all the hard work providing the API for us. Check out their app, its a great companion app: http://goo.gl/KDY4uh

Beta test group: http://goo.gl/Sfvy1F

Play Store Listing: http://goo.gl/8Fs1tE

Good luck and we’ll see you at the competition!

[WaterClaw]

I love how you took the time to take all your photos at your team number's time. Unless you just changed the time every picture, just know that somebody noticed.

[Adam8234]

Originally Posted by WaterClaw

I love how you took the time to take all your photos at your team number's time. Unless you just changed the time every picture, just know that somebody noticed.

Yeah. I saw that some other apps use the same time for each of their screenshots. Thanks!

[jvriezen]

Having trouble getting this to work. I set up a Nexus 7 and a OnePlus 1 but they don't want to see each other.

Not sure what I'm missing. I downloaded the same event on both, set one to server, and turned on BT and set both devices to be visible to nearby BT devices.

I also defined users and metrics.

Any ideas?

[Puneet4778]

Great work! - From a fellow Minnesotan Team

[nathanwalters]

Just gotta say that I love that it's Material, I love a well-designed app! I'll have to check this out and see if there are any ideas I can steal for my team's scouting platform

Are there any plans for this to be open sourced? I'm sure a lot of teams would love to contribute to and extend the great work you've already done.

[Adam8234]

Originally Posted by jvriezen

Having trouble getting this to work. I set up a Nexus 7 and a OnePlus 1 but they don't want to see each other.

Not sure what I'm missing. I downloaded the same event on both, set one to server, and turned on BT and set both devices to be visible to nearby BT devices.

I also defined users and metrics.

Any ideas?

You only have to setup one device. On the client device you go to the scout menu under the Navigation Drawer and tap on the sync button, if you are already paired with the server device, it should show up under the device list and you click on it to sync, but make sure you have the server turned on on the server side. If you need any help please reply!

[Adam8234]

Originally Posted by nathanwalters

Just gotta say that I love that it's Material, I love a well-designed app! I'll have to check this out and see if there are any ideas I can steal for my team's scouting platform

Are there any plans for this to be open sourced? I'm sure a lot of teams would love to contribute to and extend the great work you've already done.

Thanks! That's something we'd have to discuss with one of our alumni and our team members. If we do make it open sourced, I will definitely let you guys know!

Originally Posted by Puneet4778

Great work! - From a fellow Minnesotan Team

Thanks!

[Adam8234]

Originally Posted by jvriezen

Having trouble getting this to work. I set up a Nexus 7 and a OnePlus 1 but they don't want to see each other.

Not sure what I'm missing. I downloaded the same event on both, set one to server, and turned on BT and set both devices to be visible to nearby BT devices.

I also defined users and metrics.

Any ideas?

Originally Posted by Adam8234

You only have to setup one device. On the client device you go to the scout menu under the Navigation Drawer and tap on the sync button, if you are already paired with the server device, it should show up under the device list and you click on it to sync, but make sure you have the server turned on on the server side. If you need any help please reply!

I know that there is no given guide on how to use this app. But the old guide might help to a certain extent. We are going to make a much shorter guide for v2.0. Do you still need help jvriezen?

[plnyyanks]

Really nice app! I'm a fan.

And thanks for the Blue Alliance shoutout - if there are any things you'd like to see added to the API, let me know, and I'll try and work it in.

[ABreyen]

Is there plans to bring this to iOS?

[Bryan Herbst]

Originally Posted by ABreyen

Is there plans to bring this to iOS?

Not at this time.

We went with Android because we have development experience with it and because it is very cheap for the team to acquire a handful of Android tablets that are plenty capable of running the app.

We don't foresee purchasing iPads or iPhones any time soon, and we don't have development experience, so there isn't much of a reason for us to spend the time porting it to iOS.

[Adam8234]

Originally Posted by plnyyanks

Really nice app! I'm a fan.

And thanks for the Blue Alliance shoutout - if there are any things you'd like to see added to the API, let me know, and I'll try and work it in.

Thanks plnyyanks! We thought about putting OPR in the app, but we decided not adding it since TBA API doesn't support it and it's hard to implement yourself. But we should leave this discussion out of this thread. Rather, let's have it in The Blue Alliance Developer Google Group.

[Dragonking]

When I try to install the app, It says that the app is incompatible with my device. My team is using lenovo a1000 ideatabs. Is there anyway to make them compatible, because I really love this app?

[SVanNess]

Is there a way to edit a metric without having to delete and recreate it? Is there also a test mode so we don't have to wait for competition to run?
Thanks