LabVIEW to Android .apk for apps or to Apple mobile
Dear Hot Shot Devs!
thousands of us want to be able to build a mobile app from LabVIEW!!!
Can you imagine??
All that power with full responsive features on any device, like Swift and Android Studio??
you can “hook into” those tools to let us design the User Interface and evening do Bluetooth and Wireless with all’s y’all’s stacks and wizardry!!
Consider me as an Alpha tester. I know what is needed. Let me know the plans!
I have been using LabVIEW since before rev 3.0 when we could actually talk to Dr G!!
great work you are doing. Sometimes I do not enjoy the “abstractions” you do to make it easy. Kind of liked the good ole “bit banging” direct link to Comms and I/O but I understand.
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Hey everyone - could someone explain the difference between what is suggested here and what is provided with the LabVIEW NXG Web Module? Is it the ability to create an "app" that installs directly onto the mobile device? Is it specifically tying into Bluetooth and WiFi? I think this will help understand the request more clearly.
Thanks!
Thanks,
Rita Prather Software Product Manager rita.prather@ni.com National Instruments
Hey everyone - could someone explain the difference between what is suggested here and what is provided with the LabVIEW NXG Web Module? Is it the ability to create an "app" that installs directly onto the mobile device?
Yes, the desire is to build native mobile apps, ideally with access to as many of the existing device APIs as possible (camera, fingerprint scanner, Bluetooth, inertial sensors, device notifications, etc.)
Thanks tst! That helps. You can actually get to the device APIs with a WebVI if you use the JavaScript Library Interface; I believe one of our developers has some examples of this on his github (https://github.com/rajsite/webvi-experiments). There isn't a mechanism for building the WebVI into something that installs as an app that is loaded on to a phone with an icon and everything, though you can somewhat spoof that by saving the website as a shortcut in your mobile browser.
Is there a specific use case you had in mind for this kind of mobile app development, or is it more general? Some examples could be, app for monitoring status of a test station, controlling a device from the phone, etc.
Thanks,
Rita Prather Software Product Manager rita.prather@ni.com National Instruments
>Is there a specific use case you had in mind for this kind of mobile app development, or is it more general?
Games. Great for education!
As the Vireo engine is open source (it's still is, right?), there could be ports to other (non-web based) targets. If we had a more flexible way to create those vireo files, an android port would effectively become a vireo file player, very much like a poor man's LabVIEW run-time engine.
If so, please call so I may make it VERY VERY VERY clear what the opportunity is for NI. FIrst, SIMPLY.. We want to have LabVIEW "compile" to either Android or OSX for using on a smart phone. Want an app for controlling a device from the phone.
SIMPLY PUT.. When we create an Executable with LabVIEW to run on a Windows machine we are taking the high level LabVIEW code and compiling it to run on the target called a PC. What we ALSO want is to be able to compile to a target called an Android phone. You would be replacing Android Studio.
The BEAUTY of LabVIEW is it has the coolest graphics on the planet and we can do GNARLEY math with absolute ease. The SmartPhone becomes the User Interface. Call me at 831-455-0418 if you have questions.
I sort of feel you are resisting the suggestion ONLY because we have not been clear. You will ALSO want to talk to one of the Devs who ALSO knows Android Studio so you will COMPLETELY "get it". When you do this you will OWN THE WORLD for complex mathematical and scientific apps on Smartphones.
