MAVLab v1.5.2

MAVLab v1.5.2 Release Notes

MAVLab v1.5.2 is a UI and documentation release. The first-run onboarding has been rebuilt from the ground up as native Jetpack Compose, and the "how do I connect a ground station?" guidance has been corrected across the app and docs. There are no protocol, physics, or autopilot changes in this release.

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What's New

1. Onboarding rebuilt natively in Compose

The previous onboarding shipped baked screenshots that squashed or letterboxed on real devices (a 360×780 raster never matches a phone's safe area). It has been replaced with a native, flex-layout flow that adapts to any screen height — no more stretching.

• Reuses the real app components so the instruments are pixel-accurate: the attitude instrument (AltitudeInstrument), telemetry cards, the tilt crosshair (TiltVisualizer), and the Controller's throttle / yaw-trim sliders (ControlSlider).
• Hand-drawn visuals faithfully port the design frames: the drone glyph, the ground-station link diagram, the arm/takeoff scene, the mission-waypoint plot, the failure preview, and the telemetry log panel.
• The baked onb_*.png assets are removed.

2. "Connect a ground station" (not just QGroundControl)

The connect screen is generalized: MAVLab broadcasts MAVLink for QGroundControl or any GCS to discover, and the phone/desktop illustration now reads as a device streaming to a ground station.

• The Open QGroundControl button now links to the official QGC Android download-and-install docs, since QGroundControl for Android is not on the Play Store.

3. Connection guidance corrected: no split-screen required

You do not need Android split-screen to connect a GCS on the same device. MAVLab runs as a foreground service holding wake + Wi-Fi locks (since v1.5.1), so its MAVLink stream keeps flowing in the background — just keep MAVLab running and open your GCS on 127.0.0.1:14550. Split-screen is now described only as an optional way to view both apps at once. This was corrected across the onboarding copy, in-app lessons/settings, and every doc (READMEs, setup guide, first-run issues, teacher guide, demo script, acceptance spec, guidelines, and the paper).

4. Copy

• The final onboarding button now reads "Start flying".

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Upgrade Instructions

1. Download MAVLab-v1.5.2.apk from the GitHub Releases page and install it over the existing app, or build from source:

   cd mavlab-android
   GRADLE_USER_HOME="$PWD/.gradle" ./gradlew assembleDebug
   adb install -r app/build/outputs/apk/debug/MAVlab.apk

2. New installs land in the rebuilt onboarding automatically. To replay it, use Ops → Replay tour.

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Full Changelog: v1.5.1...v1.5.2

MAVLab v1.5.1

Full Changelog: v1.5.0...v1.5.1

MAVLab v1.5.0

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Labs-Ascend/MAVLab/commits/v1.5.0