Development for ESP32-S3 7inch Capacitive Touch Display Development Board. Where to start?

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I’m a student tasked with developing the following board:

ESP32-S3 7inch Capacitive Touch Display Development Board, ESP32 With Display, 800×480, 5-point Touch, 32-bit LX7 Dual-core Processor, Supports WiFi & Bluetooth

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I’m in a bit over my head as this is my first “solo” project. I’m tasked with using the screen as a HMI between a mechanical machine and the operator.
However I’m finding it difficult to figure out where to start and what software to download.
I have gotten an LVGL “simulator” up and running for the board but it doesn’t seem to helpful.

So what am I looking for:
I’d like to get some guidance into how I would go about designing a user interface that I can upload to the ESP32 on the touch screen. I don’t know if SquareLine Studio can flash to the board, or should I get other software for that? Once I get the foundation in place I can start with the actual controlling of output pins and so on.

Others

  • SquareLine Studio version: 1.4.2
  • Operating system: Windows
  • Target hardware: stated above
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Thank you, I had previously read through this document, I was really hoping for some software environment which allows me to have a “drag-and-drop” interface for the UI development (like I believe squareline allows)

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A similar issue occurred with the CYD display. After carefully examining the example and trying to mimic the code in the example, I was able to get the UI from SquareLine Studio to work. However, it took some time to understand the code flow.
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With SquareLine Studio you can do that ‘drag-and-drop’-style UI development part, but to build the binarias and flash them onto the board you’ll need to rely on the MCU’s development environment and its built-in or standalone flasher tool. If you work with ESP-IDF (which I’d recommend for ESP) you can simply use ‘idf.py flash’ command after a successful build with ‘idf.py build’.
If this is a custom board, you can work faster in the long run if you create a board-template for it that can be used in SquareLine Studio. (Open Board Platform (OBP) | SquareLine Studio)
(If your project is a bigger one, the SDL-based ‘simulator’ still has its advantages, faster modifying-testing cycle on the PC, a testbench to test the GUI-logic before running it on the real hardware.)