Implementation of extended motion capture support in Android smartphones

Abstract

This thesis is a study in smartphone applications on the Android platform that communicates with a motion capture system in real-time. The thesis covers the work in porting a C library to Android Java with NDK in order to utilize already written motion capture system communication code. Three different Android applications were developed based on this port; a remote control application, a viewfinder application and a virtual camera application. For illustration, the OpenGL library is used and hence it is also covered. Comparisons between the iOS application ditos are made and interviews were conducted in order to determine how and when the applications are useful. Throughout the project an agile like inhouse development process was utilized at the Swedish motion capture company Qualisys. At the end of this paper, some issues and suggestions on future work are brought to the surface.