Getting "Cannot resolve symbol RobotActivity" with QiSDK

[Rocco Febbo]

Hello,

I am trying to get my pepper robot to perform some simple speech task. I can follow the tutorial all the way up to "Creating a robot application". It seems like step 2 where you "robotify" the application is not working correctly. It creates a file called robotsdk.xml in the assets/robot directory but did not do any other modifications as mentioned in the tutorial. When I copy the example code at the bottom of the tutorial into MainActivity.java I get the error in the title.

heres a link to the tutorial.

https://qisdk.softbankrobotics.com/sdk/doc/pepper-sdk/ch1_gettingstarted/starting_project.html

I have tried following the tutorial on a Windows 10 machine and a Linux machine and I get the same problem.

I am able to connect to the robot and slightly move the limbs around using the "Connect" button in the Pepper SDK in Android Studio.

I'm very new to this. If you have any recommendations, like a new approach entirely let me know. It seems there are many ways to interface with Pepper, but I cannot get any working. Is the Android approach the way to go? Can I still use ROS if I use the Android approach?

Sorry for the barrage of questions.

Thank you

[Victor Paléologue]

Don't be sorry and ask them on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/pepper

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[Emile KROEGER]

Hello Rocco,

normally robotifying the application also added a couple lines in your Gradle file, but sometimes those are not taken into account immediately, and you need to force a gradle sync (the little elephant icon in the top bar android studio), and then, you can can go on the RobotActivity in MainActivity.java, and hit alt-enter, and it will add the correct import to the top of the file (this won't work if you don't sync gradle first).

Regards,

Emile

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[Samer Rihawi]

Hello,

I was trying the same with my NAO robot, and then I forced a gradle sync, yet the QiSDK "RobotActivity" is not resolved either.

Could you write down the lines you add to build.gradle as I believe it is the best way to force a gradle build.

Thanks a lot

On Friday, June 26, 2020 at 11:27:30 AM UTC+4, Émile KROEGER wrote:

Hello Rocco,

normally robotifying the application also added a couple lines in your Gradle file, but sometimes those are not taken into account immediately, and you need to force a gradle sync (the little elephant icon in the top bar android studio), and then, you can can go on the RobotActivity in MainActivity.java, and hit alt-enter, and it will add the correct import to the top of the file (this won't work if you don't sync gradle first).

Regards,

Emile

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 12:42 AM 'Rocco Febbo' via ROS Sig Aldebaran <ros-sig-...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hello,

I am trying to get my pepper robot to perform some simple speech task. I can follow the tutorial all the way up to "Creating a robot application". It seems like step 2 where you "robotify" the application is not working correctly. It creates a file called robotsdk.xml in the assets/robot directory but did not do any other modifications as mentioned in the tutorial. When I copy the example code at the bottom of the tutorial into MainActivity.java I get the error in the title.

heres a link to the tutorial.

https://qisdk.softbankrobotics.com/sdk/doc/pepper-sdk/ch1_gettingstarted/starting_project.html

I have tried following the tutorial on a Windows 10 machine and a Linux machine and I get the same problem.

I am able to connect to the robot and slightly move the limbs around using the "Connect" button in the Pepper SDK in Android Studio.

I'm very new to this. If you have any recommendations, like a new approach entirely let me know. It seems there are many ways to interface with Pepper, but I cannot get any working. Is the Android approach the way to go? Can I still use ROS if I use the Android approach?

Sorry for the barrage of questions.

Thank you

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[Rocco Febbo]

I was able to get it working by downloading and opening this git repo with Android Studio. github.com/aldebaran/qisdk-tutorials 

[Samer Rihawi]

Hello,

Thank you for your reply.

I went through the steps mentioned in the tutorial and I am still facing the same problem.

[Rocco Febbo]

I'm not sure if there is some incompatibility with their plugin and something in Android Studio.

When I opened the project I linked above with Android Studio a bunch of stuff started downloading. After it was done I was able to build, run it in the emulator, and connect to the robot itself and run the tutorial. I've just been modifying the tutorial and it is working well. I was even able to connect it to Google Dialogflow.

[Katharina Linden]

Hi - I am experiencing the very same problem! I suppose it has to do with the android.support dependency, but I can't get it solved. Did you find a solution in the meantime by any chance? 

Thank you a lot!