PDF export/printing from Esri Android MapView

deleted-user-Ohz6rwd1kavx — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 21:47:18 GMT

Hi,

I'm looking for any documentation, Esri or otherwise, that could help me understand how best to approach developing a tool to create a .pdf and/or print an Esri Android map control.

Esri has a native .NET sample that demonstrates client printing, but there are quite a few gotchas in applying that approach to Android...I think the general approach of creating taking the on-screen MapView and creating from that a printable MapView translates pretty well. However, the next steps in the .NET sample delegates control to the System PrintDialog which ain't gonna get me too far.

I am interested in, primarily, generating a .pdf from the MapView. Secondarily, I am also interested in standard approaches for actually printing to a printer. I have done a bit of poking, and finding zero specific to Esri. I am interested in client solutions that will work without a connection to an ArcGIS Server print service.

Thanks,

-Cory

Re: PDF export/printing from Esri Android MapView

deleted-user-Ohz6rwd1kavx — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:40:35 GMT

Here is what I found for this.

1. Use MapView.getDrawingMapCache() to get a bitmap from your MapView.

2. Add the bitmap to an android PdfDocument and print it using the native android print API

This link goes into great detail about your options for this: An Android Custom Document Printing Tutorial

-Cory

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