RIOdroid: RoboRIO + Android USB Communication

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by Peter Mitrano

Why would you want the RoboRIO to control the phone? Launching an app during the match doesn't seem like a really key/useful feature. Why not just launch the app once the robot boots? Although it occurs to me that for network tables stuff you'd have to figure out how to connect the android phone to the network... not sure what the rules are about that stuff and if that's even possible.

I would want the robot to be able to ensure that the app is loaded and to reload it if it crashes, etc. For network tables it works with ADB because you can virtually forward a port over the USB connection.