Has anyone put Ros 2 on an iPad? Anyone want to share step-by-step directions?
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What are you trying to accomplish? If you want to use the iPad for remotely monitoring or controlling the robot, then you don’t want to put ROS 2 itself on the iPad. There are better options, e.g., Remote Teleop | Transitive Robotics for teleop, or ROS Tool | Transitive Robotics for a front-end (React) SDK for interacting with ROS on your robot.
I heard that it is possible to install ROS 2 on modern macOS systems via Anaconda, likely using RoboStack, thanks to the availability of arm64 builds. However, I haven’t heard of any ready-made, drop-in solutions for running ROS 2 on iOS devices.
As mentioned above, if you are trying to create a teleop remote, you might have a better development experience with PC gaming handhelds, e.g. the Steam Deck runs SteamOS (based on Arch Linux), where you can deploy containers with your project.
As others have said, it’s more important how you want to use ros2 on the ipad before you just install it. Installing ros2 on the ipad is quite a solvable problem. For example, you can install a linux virtual machine on the Ipad and then install ros2 in it. Another possibility is to use the nix-ros-overlay. If you really want to do that, you can. The why is really more important.