Latest Contributions by Rachael_Ellen

📢 There is a brand new native ArcGIS Maps SDK winging its way toward a beta release in 2024 – the ArcGIS Maps SDK for Flutter! We first announced the upcoming public beta at the European Developer Summit in November 2023, and from your feedback, we know how excited you are about building native apps with Flutter. In this blog post (find it here on the ArcGIS Blog), we’re delighted to be able to share more with you and dart over the key timings and events about the new Flutter Maps SDK beta release!    ... View more

One of the greatest challenges to having a successful day out in the mountains is assessing the weather, which can vary significantly over short distances and time frames. In this new ArcGIS Blog post, Andrew Bladon shares his inspiration for building a full stack Qt Maps SDK application, capable of showing the most suitable locations for climbing based on the weather. In this blog post (find it here on the ArcGIS Blog), learn: What challenges climbers face when assessing mountain weather How as a developer and a climber Andrew was able to build Conditions Navigator, an application built with the Qt Maps SDK to help address these challenges How Conditions Navigator helped on his recent climbing holiday Andrew also shares the source code for the application, and a story map filled with stunning mountain scenery taken from his holidays! 🏔     ... View more

Did you know that the Swift Maps SDK supports showing Apple’s SF Symbols® on maps?  In this blog post (find it here on the ArcGIS Blog), learn: What are SF Symbols What are the benefits of incorporating SF Symbols into apps built with the Swift Maps SDK How you can improve your iOS development experience How you can build visually beautiful iOS apps with the Swift Maps SDK and SF Symbols Credit Notice: SF Symbols is a registered trademark of Apple Inc.         ... View more

The places service has recently been added to the rich set of ArcGIS location services for Developers. This new service facilitates a better awareness of location in a given area by letting you search for places, or points of interest. While there is a plan to build an API for the places service in a future version of the ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps (Native Maps SDKs), the service follows a REST architectural style and can therefore be integrated with Native Maps SDKs apps today by making HTTPS requests directly. In this blog post (find it here on the ArcGIS Blog) you will learn: How to construct a URL suitable for making requests to the places service How responses from the places service can be processed and displayed on a map How to request additional information for a place How the places service can be integrated with existing Native Maps SDK geocoding tools If you are planning on using, or have used the places services in your Native Maps SDKs maps, we'd love to hear your feedback! Let us know in the comments here, or on your Native Maps SDK appropriate Esri Community Forum.   ... View more

Our latest ArcGIS Blog post for developers gives an overview of dynamic entity data sources and a step through of how to create one, using a .NET MAUI example using the ArcGIS Maps SDK for .NET and C#.   💡 Learn how to build an app that displays a live data stream of bike rental stations from the CityBikes API, an open data set for building bike sharing transportation projects in our latest ArcGISBlog post!     ... View more

Our latest developers blog on the ArcGIS Blog shares how to use the beta release of the Java Maps SDK (with ARM Linux support) to build a simple app that can display and log weather data gathered from a Raspberry Pi to a feature service.  If you would like access to this beta release, send us an email to ARM64LinuxNative@esri.com. We are particularly interested in hearing how you intend on using this release, the applications you are writing, and what devices you are running with it! 🍓Learn how to use the Java Maps SDK in a Raspberry Pi in our latest ArcGISBlog post!   ... View more

The 200.2 release of the ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps paves the way to a brand new GeometryEditor in .NET. Learning from developing the SketchEditor, we made significant improvements in its replacement. It is now built from the same core C++ to provide your applications a consistent, intuitive, easy to use, highly customizable, more reliable, and performant editor. This single core implementation will enable us to fulfill your most requested enhancements, like snapping and curve editing, more efficiently across all the Native SDKs. Our new ArcGIS Blog covers the following topics to help you decide when and how to navigate the code migration process for .NET: Functional equivalence Improvements .NET support ✏️ Read on in our developer blog on the ArcGIS Blog!   ... View more

  Originally posted on ArcGIS Blog 16th Aug 2023 by Nick Furness, Mike Branscomb, Rex Hansen & Chris LeSueur For many years, ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt and ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Qt have provided two different APIs to target different backgrounds and skillsets: a QML API and a C++ API. Today with the 200.2 release of ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt, we are announcing the deprecation of the QML API, as we focus our efforts on building the best GIS SDK available in the Qt ecosystem with our C++ API. C++ API The C++ API has been around since the product’s inception and is the most versatile and powerful way to build a Qt application. It allows for fully cross platform apps to be built using QML for the UI (User Interface) and C++ for the business logic, or less commonly, desktop apps to be built purely with C++ using Qt Widgets. Separating the UI and business logic follows best practice recommendations from Qt Group, and gives you access to all the powerful APIs provided to Qt via C++ and the various underlying native platforms. We have had many Esri customers and system integrators find overwhelming success with this API over the years, and this API remains firmly entrenched in our product plan going forward. QML API The QML API was originally built with AppStudio for ArcGIS in mind, with the goal of making native app development easy for individuals with some web development and scripting experience. Making this experience come to life hinged heavily on AppStudio, which provided templates to get started, extensive tooling to aid in building, testing, and deploying apps, and additional APIs to make the best native experiences possible. Due to a variety of changes in the app development space, AppStudio has announced retirement, and as such, we will also deprecate the QML API from the ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt. Support and Retirement Plan ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt version 200.2 will be the last release to include new features in the QML API, and 200.4 will be the last release to include the QML API. 200.5 and all subsequent releases will only include the C++ API. The QML API will continue to be supported for several years and will follow the product life cycle outlined by Esri Support: 100.15 LTS Product Life Cycle 200.x Product Life Cycle Migration Options If you are a Qt developer using the QML API, you should first consider using the C++ API. You can still write all your UI in QML, but your business logic will move from JavaScript to C++. We have a wealth of samples, tutorials, and code snippets throughout our developer guide to help you learn the patterns. Reach out on Esri Community forums with any questions you might have. As mentioned in the AppStudio retirement, there are several other app development options to consider. In addition, Esri is always looking to innovate and stay on top of the latest industry trends, so keep an eye out on the developer blog for new options for building apps. Connect with us Please reach out to us here on Esri Community if you have questions about the retirement or app migration options. The Qt team will be at the 2024 Esri Developer Summit in March and would be happy to assist you with your current projects and discuss the best solution for future apps. ... View more

The recent 200.2 release of the ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps brings new capabilities for 3D visualization and application development, including:  Support for 3D objects in relative surface placement mode Support for filtering features in an ArcGISSceneLayer Per-feature filtering Spatial filtering Webscenes published with filters 🌎 Find out more in our developer blog on the ArcGIS Blog!     ... View more

The ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps team is excited to announce the latest update in the 200.x series is now available! It's full of new features and important updates to existing ones, including: Real-time data 3D basemaps and data filtering (check out our "What's new in 3D" ArcGIS Blog for a deeper dive) Point feature clustering Geometry Editor Geometry Engine Utility Network Offline Enhancements QML API deprecation (read more in our new "QML API deprecation and roadmap blog") and other improvements! 📢  Find out more about in our full announcement blog on ArcGIS Blog! ... View more

The ArcGIS Utility Network is used by various kinds of utilities in a diverse set of mobile workflows and these capabilities are supported by the ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps (formerly known as ArcGIS Runtime SDKs). The functionality available through these APIs continue to improve with each release, and we’re excited to announce with the 200.1 release of the Native Maps SDKs that we now support all industries and domains as well as a broader set of workflows. In this part of the series, we will go over the following offline tracing additions: Aggregated Geometry Isolation Traces Tracing in Hierarchical Networks 📖 You can find the full blog article on the ArcGIS Blog!   ... View more

The release of version 200.0 of the ArcGIS Maps SDK for Java shipped with new features, designed to help developers create modern interactive Java based mapping applications! The Java Maps SDK now includes JavaFX properties on the GeoView class (the parent class to the MapView and SceneView classes which display a map or a scene), and classes which implement the loadable interface such as ArcGISMap and ArcGISScene. 📖 Check out the blog in the ArcGIS Blog developers category to learn more about the advantages of using JavaFX properties and listeners in your Java Maps SDKs apps!      ... View more

  The capabilities of the ArcGIS Utility Network in mobile and offline applications continues to grow with every release, and the ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps (formerly known as ArcGIS Runtime SDKs) have always been the best way for developers to access these capabilities on native devices across multiple platforms. In part 1 of this series, we announced the availability of offline tracing in the Native Maps SDKs with stand-alone mobile geodatabases which can be sideloaded onto the device for use within native apps. Here, in part 2, we will cover how the 200.1 release of the Native Maps SDKs and ArcGIS Enterprise 11.1 enables your application to download a utility network and trace offline. That’s right, you can now generate a read-only mobile geodatabase with a utility network that is traceable using the same offline tracing functionality available in stand-alone mobile geodatabases. This blog covers the following topics: What’s new with service-based utility networks How to configure the utility network’s offline capability What’s next You can find the full blog article on the ArcGIS Blog! ... View more

Components of a Raspberry Pi The beta release of the ArcGIS Maps SDK for Java with ARM64 Linux support is now available! If you're looking for inspiration for how it can be used, check out this first in a series of ArcGIS Blog posts, where @MarkBaird demonstrates how to set up a Raspberry Pi for recording GPS tracks. The blog walks through how to make an inexpensive GPS data logger to collect location updates every 10 seconds, and write them to a hosted data service on the ArcGIS platform.  📖 Head over to the developers space on ArcGIS Blog to check out the blog! 👉 For details on the beta release, check out our Esri Community announcement blog post. Note: Raspberry Pi is a trademark of Raspberry Pi Ltd. ... View more

Do you have an application that requires mapping of complex geometries and data, such as a network of interconnected pipes, complex railroad system or lakes within islands, but don’t know where to start? Then our new blog written by Priyanka Rupani, one of our product engineers on the ArcGIS Maps SDK for Kotlin team, is for you! The blog explores multipart geometries using the ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps and describes multipart geometry types, how to create them, their applications and the benefits of using them. The code snippets for this blog are written using the ArcGIS Maps SDK for Kotlin but all the concepts apply to the ArcGIS Maps SDKs for .NET, Qt, Java and Swift. Enjoy! https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/developers/mapping/mapping-complex-data-with-multipart-geometries-using-the-arcgis-maps-sdks-for-native-apps/ How are you using multipart geometries in your apps? We’d love to hear from you in the comments! ... View more