Overview

Tactility is a front-end application platform for ESP32. It is mainly intended for touchscreen devices. It provides an application framework that is based on code from the Flipper Zero project.

Status: Alpha

Tactility features:

• A hardware abstraction layer
• UI capabilities (via LVGL)
• An application platform that can run apps and services
• PC app support to speed up development for ESP32 apps

Requirements:

• ESP32 (any?) with a display that has touch capability
• esp-idf 5.1.2 or a newer v5.1.x

Technologies

UI is created with lvgl. Any LVGL-capable device is supported.

In general, esp_lvgl_port is the preferred solution if it supports your hardware: Those LCD and input drivers are based on esp_lcd and esp_lcd_touch. They are generally available via the Espressif Registry: here and here

Supported Hardware

Devices

Most hardware configurations should work, but it might require you to set up the drivers yourself.

Predefined configurations are available for:

Device	Screen&Touch	SD card	Other
LilyGo T-Deck	✅	✅	Keyboard
Waveshare S3 Touch	✅	⏳
Yellow Board 2432S024C (*)	✅	✅

• ✅: Capable and implemented
• ⏳: Capable but not yet implemented
• ❌: Not capable

(*) Note: Only the capacitive version is supported. See AliExpress here and here.

Guide

Build environment setup

Ensure you have esp-idf 5.1.2 installed, then select the correct device:

Copy the sdkconfig.board.YOUR_BOARD into sdkconfig. Use sdkconfig.defaults if you are setting up a custom board.

Building firmware

You can run idf.py flash monitor, but there are some helpers available too:

./build.sh - build the ESP-IDF or the PC version of Tactility (*) ./build.sh -p /dev/ttyACM0 - optional: you can pass on extra parameters for esp-idf builds ./run.sh - Does flash and monitor for ESP-IDF and simply builds and starts it for PC

The build scripts will detect if ESP-IDF is available. They will adapter if you ran ${IDF_PATH}/export.sh.

Development

Directories explained:

• app-esp: The ESP32 application example
• app-sim: The PC/simulator application example
• boards: Contains ESP modules with drivers
• tactility: The main application platform code (src/)
• tactility-esp: ESP-specific application code (e.g. wifi app and service)
• tactility-core: Core functionality regarding threads, stdlib, etc. (src/)
• libs: Contains a mix of regular libraries and ESP modules

Until there is proper documentation, here are some pointers:

License

GNU General Public License Version 3