[FTC]: New Android Control System

[DavisDad]

http://frc-events.usfirst.org/2015/ftcimages

Originally Posted by samfruth

...Does anyone know of a place other than the Google Play Store that I can download the FTC Driver Station and FTC Robot Controller apps? ...

Hi samfruth,

The app files are ???.apk and available at the official "Google Drive" posting here: FTC App Inventor files

Also... FTC links to all App Inventor related material: http://frc-events.usfirst.org/2015/ftcimages

[DavisDad]

Opps... posted this to wrong thread

Moved here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...7&postcount=68

[Gdeaver]

COG, COM important concept for kids to master.

[DavisDad]

New release of App Inventor at the FTC forum

[DavisDad]

Our team doesn't have programming experts; neither students or mentors. My son (FTC alum) and I have been trying to fill the gap. My approach is to identify step-by-step procedures that can be followed without total fluency in the software/hardware technologies.

We've gotten "tangled up" when we've updated the App Inventor (AI) programming versions and Driver Station apps. This is also complicated by the requirements for setting up the ZTE Speed for FTC use. Here are our "usual suspects" that have caused us problems:

1. Low battery charge
2. Faulty USB cables
3. We changed the ZTE configuration without knowing it
4. Installing multiple Driver Station and/or Robot FTC apps on the same phone
5. Updating the driver station app with older version AI software
6. Installing the driver station app on the robot phone (and vice versa)
7. Setting up "WFI Direct" with old procedures

I'm working on a procedure for updating AI and configuring the robot station (ZTE & Core Modules). I also hope to have a checklist for configuration troubleshooting if we have issues at the competition.

If anyone has done work on this, any help appreciated!