topic MPK for offline app in ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Android Questions

MPK for offline app

teamIgal — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 09:47:50 GMT

Hello,

Is there a possibility to load MPK to a map in an offline application?

Thanks,
Ilona

Re: MPK for offline app

EricBader — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 18:31:02 GMT

Hello,

Is there a possibility to load MPK to a map in an offline application?

Thanks,
Ilona

Hello Ilona,

Map Packages (MPKs) are not supported within an ArcGIS Android application. You can read Tile Packages (TPKs), however.
The MPK workflow is supported with the ArcGIS Runtime SDKs for Java, WPF and Qt.

I hope this is helpful.

Re: MPK for offline app

teamIgal — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 10:15:35 GMT

Thank you Eric.

Is there a way to dynamically draw the TPK without creating the tiles before.
Something like client caching?

Re: MPK for offline app

JasonKnisley — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 15:43:06 GMT

If you're referring to caching on the client while they are online so that they can later go offline, the TileCacheTask should be what you want, although it is tagged as being in beta as of the current 10.2.0 API.

I haven't used that yet so I'm not sure what hurdles you may find during implementation. Currently I create tpks from map caches and load them in their entirety onto a device for use as an ArcGISLocalTiledLayer.