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[2277Dhruv]

Hi,

I'm a student that wants to experiment with MedDeviceKit applied to machine learning and I was wondering if you can provide more detailed instructions on how to build and run the app and code on Xcode and/or Android Studio because I am getting multiple errors of all sorts running your code. Thanks!

[baygeldin]

Hi! Thanks for the interest, although it's not possible to build the project unless you have a copy of a production version of MedM DeviceKit SDK. It could probably be built with a demo version, but you won't be able to pair any real medical device with the app, so it's pretty much pointless.

Sorry, but currently the only way you could possibly benefit from this project is to explore the source code if you're interested in how it blends together different technologies (like React Native and SciKit-Learn, etc.) and how the machine learning part is done (albeit it's actually pretty basic).

MedM DeviceKit SDK is not a go to library for experiments, because it's a proprietary library. I'm not aware of any open source (or at least free) alternatives. However, if you have a particular medical device in mind, it might have it's own specialized SDK or you can write one from scratch (for that you would have to read the device's manual in order to understand it's binary protocol).

Also, there are some free to use datasets with medical data available on the web, so you might make use of them. Good luck with your experiments!

[2277Dhruv]

Hi, thanks so much for your reply! I still want to build it with the demo version just to learn more about the functionality (and possibly move into going further and purchasing the SDK). Is this possible to build with the demo version? I'm very confused by the instructions in the ReadME file. Thanks again for your time, I really appreciate it!

[baygeldin]

Well, I don't own a Mac, so at this point I can only help you with building the Android app. I've just tried to build it out of curiosity to see if it still builds and it does (which is surprising considering the amount of duct tape one needs to hack a React Native project together). The build instructions in README seem straightforward to me, but nonetheless I've updated them a bit (see the last commit). So, I've pulled the fresh repo, downloaded the demo version of both iOS and Android, set MEDM_DEVICEKIT_LICENSE_KEY env var to device-kit-demo-key and followed the rest of instructions. The app builds just fine, but as expected, there are no medical devices to connect to.

As of purchasing the SDK, I'm not sure if it's currently sold to single developers (you would have to contact MedM for that). So, I just want to warn you not to invest too much time into it so that you won't be put off by the price and regret spending your time on this later.