Hi,
Having gathered some experience with building KStars for Linux on RPi2, and knowing that Android is based on a Linux kernel (if I understood well), I wonder whether someone on this forum ever tried to port KStars to Android?

As can be read on this forum we come to the conclusion that an RPi2 quad-core with 1GB ram is probably at its limits when running KStars.
Modern Tablets have also quad cores (even two quad core processors) and 3GB ram. KStars would find in a tablet sufficient resources if it could be compiled for Android.

Thanks in advance for your views about this topic.

Stefan

Why not install linux in your tablet and install kstars ?

This is what I wanted to do one year ago. I gave up due to the rooting issue. I got a bad feeling becoming illegal, loosing guarantee on the tablet once hacking it...
All this problems for achieving a very sound and genuin objective...

Having KStars with Ekos on a tablet but running the indiserver on a RPi-type machine near the gear to be controlled loks a very much optimised solution. The tablet is running the cpu and memory intensive applications but is good in image/video like processing and has an autonomy of 8hours. The other tasks may be energy intensive and are powered independently.

We're considering launching a GSoC 2016 project to make a light version of KStars available on mobile/tablet but nothing is concrete yet.

I have Kstars and ekos on raspi 3 with Indi web manager running. From my tablet I can start the Indi drivers and have installed Kstars light for android. In connecting to my Canon Eos 1000D I can activate live view but when I try to take an exposure I am prompted for image info. I
try to add pixel size of 5.70 but it is not accepted. All other values are also rejected so I can't get any further. What are some values to try?
Cheers Yabby

prompted by what? KStars Lite?