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Re: [Orekit Developers] Thinking in SOCIS2011

David Martín Nieto <david.martin.nieto@gmail.com> a écrit :


Hello,

Hi David,


I am a Spanish student of computer science and after seeing the  
announcement of Socis I've been reviewing the ideas propopes by  
Orekit. I'm especially interested in one of them called "Space  
flight dynamics Create a pocket calculator application for android  
mobile devices". I'm learning more about your project and the scope  
of it and I hope that within a few days I may perform a  
well-formulated proposal to develop this idea.

Thank you for your interest in our project.


In advance I can tell you that I have experience in development in  
different languages (especially Java) and also I've developed some  
applications for Android within the scope of the university.

This is a good background for the subject we proposed.


According to point in the summary of the idea which I mean these  
would be the six main points:

 * set up a development environment for Android devices,
 * check if Apache Commons Math can be used on such devices,
 * check if Orekit can be used on such devices,
 * build a simple application for touch-screen devices that computes
   spacecraft visibility from ground station,
 * add orbit conversions features
 * add impulse maneuvers handling

Yes, these are the main points. They may be adapted if needed. If you  
feel some points are missing, feel free to add them. It is also  
possible some part may be harder than others to perform and take  
longer time, so it is also possible to adjust the goal as we monitor  
the progress.

On the first point of them I have my own development environment for  
applications on Android based on Eclipse wiht virtual machines of  
Android.

This is good. Can this development environment be installed also on a  
Linux machine ? Does it rely only on free software ? This are  
important questions that must be addressed too.

On the second one I am researching the issue but I think if it would  
be possible to use the Apache Commons package Maths, I will try to  
make a quick test to check in the nexts days.

Very good. I hope porting the libraries will be mainly simply  
recompiling, but before it is done, we cannot be sure.

Also I downloaded and installed the sources and I have thought  
Orekit review to get an idea of the project.

Do not hesitate to ask on this list if need some more information.


Thanks!!

Best regards,
Luc


David Martín Nieto
Parla - Madrid - Spain









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