Android App for Lepton Raspberry Pi

Last summer, I had been working with a software developer on another project when he kindly offered to write an Android app for me. Unfortunately, I don't have the time or perhaps the high-level language expertise to learn native Android app development. Xojo's Android effort is moving at a snail's pace and sadly, I don't imagine that I can start that port anytime soon.

If you've been following back, you might see that I originally wanted to use Xojo to take the iOS app I developed last year and release a version for Android when Xojo finally supported sockets on Android. People have asked for an Android App since tCam-Mini was first released, and I don't blame them.

The developer knows about this issue and plans to rewrite the socket handling code to deal with it. The app is pretty full-featured, but it has a known issue when streaming. When the developer is ready, he or I will notify you when it's ready to download and include instructions on how to do that and provide feedback.

If you're interested in testing the Android app, please reach out to me with your email address either here on Hackaday.io or at my personal website or GitHub page. The app is designed for displaying images from the tCam cameras and is ready for some alpha testing.

I'd like to give a special mention to Max Ritter's DIY Thermocam and Damien Walsh's Leptonic, which are really well done and instructive. Pure Engineering and Group Gets are also commended for making these devices available to makers. I read about many other great projects online to get started.

This is the story of my thermal imaging camera journey, which began with a Teensy 3.2-based prototype using a Lepton breakout board before moving on to the Raspberry Pi and later the Beaglebone SBCs. Finally, I settled on the ESP32 for my final design (actual designs).

Edit: The developer decided that getting the app into the Play Store alpha program was too complex and will instead be providing an APK for download.

I hope you enjoy using this Android app with your Lepton Raspberry Pi setup. Let me know if you have any feedback or feature requests!

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