Convert string text to GCode

Question

I need to create an app (using Android Studio) that generates CNC code to operate a 3D printer. It takes a String as input.

I've found a couple libraries in Python and Javascript that does this, but as I don't have time to translate whole libraries to Java, can you recommend any libraries that does that for me? If there are no open-source options, can you recommend any guide to help me develop this conversor?

so you want to do that https://stackoverflow.com/questions/101754/is-there-a-way-to-run-python-on-android — gmetax, Aug 08 '18 at 11:56

Mateus Wolkmer · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-08T11:51:56.447

What we ended up doing:

App asks for a String as input;
String is converted to a bitmap and then saved as a .png;
.png is loaded and converted to a .svg file. We used this repo: https://github.com/jankovicsandras/imagetracerandroid
We developed a parser to convert a .svg to g-code.

It worked but it's not the best solution, we're looking to implement something that runs python in Android, as there are many pythons that do all the work already, but that's how we've done it and it's working by now.

Convert string text to GCode

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