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Yes, it is a bug or flaw of the system.   Many of the Esri basemaps are based on the same vector tile set.  The vector tile set has an internal style, which is the "Yellow Streetmap" that you are seeing when using the Mobile Map Package.  ArcGIS Pro is using an external style, custom style, that over-rides the internal style.  When the mobile map package is created the custom style is not included in the package.  Work is being done to address this in the next release of ArcGIS Pro.   In addition to this, your IPad App will also need to know how to use the custom style associated with the Vector Tile Package, this work is being done in ArcGIS Runtime update 7 - both Pro and Runtime updates schedule to be complete before the end of this year. Here is a description of the problem and a manual workaround. Explanation of Problem Specify World Street Night as your basemap.   Zoom to desired area and click Download Map, check “Include basemap & tile layers” and download map.   The VTPK is downloaded and added to the map. Style looks fine. ArcGIS Pro is holding the custom style in the Layer properties.   If you Add data and browse to the downloaded VTPK file on disk and add it, you will see that Pro uses the internal style to display it.  The VTPK itself, does not know anything about the custom style.   To work around this problem, for now, the internal style for the VTPK can be manually updated.   First, we need a style to update it with.  This can be a custom style created with the Vector Tile Style Editor https://developers.arcgis.com/vector-tile-style-editor/  or any Esri  Vector basemap.  Sticking with the example, on ArcGIS Online we can search for the “World Street Map (Night)” style.   View the Item and click “View Style”   Copy the style into a text editor, its helpful if the editor can format the JSON.   Copied the JSON into an editor and saved the file as “World Street Map Night.txt”   If you look at the second line, we also want to get the sprite resources.  If you put the first part of the URL into web browser you can access them. These are the resources for World Street Map (Night) https://cdn.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/8e848d9302e84dcba0de7aff8ac429dc/resources/   If we look at the World Street Map VTPK that was downloaded to our file system, we can use 7 zip to extract all the files. You will see a folder structure that matches the files listed in the web browser. Styles, Sprites and Info. Download the online resource files and replace the internal files in the info and sprites folders with the downloaded files. For the styles folder we want to replace the root.json file that is in that folder, using the World Street Map Night.txt file that we created, but we want to modify it a bit first. If you look at the internal root.json file in the styles folder, you will see that the first lines reference resources in the folder structure, we also want to do this with the World Street Map Night.txt file.(it is referencing online resources)   Once you have replaced the lines, save World Street Map Night.txt as root.json.  Replace the root.json file in the resources/styles folder.     Then use 7 zip to create a new VTPK archive with the updated internal files.     Use 7 zip setting pictured above.   Then add to the VTPK to ArcGIS Pro and you will see the correct styling.  Since internal styling is updated, when you create the Mobile Map Package this will be included and continue to work when using the Mobile Map Package. Mark ... View more

Tyler, Set Pop-up source for Vector Tile Packages is not supported in a Mobile Map Package.  This is something we will consider supporting for a future release. Mark ... View more

Matt, Before the end of this year (Very General Time Frame) for all platforms (IOS, Android, Windows) Right now Windows version of Explorer is closest to release, the Beta version is public and you can find information about it here. https://community.esri.com/groups/explorer-beta/blog/2019/07/02/whats-new-and-whats-coming-in-explorer-for-arcgis-beta-3-june-2019  Its accessible directly from the Microsoft Store. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/explorer-for-arcgis-beta/9p47gjtlm9nt?activetab=pivot:overviewtab  This Windows Beta would be the best one to check, It supports group layers, and is on the latest version of the ArcGIS Runtime, and a great prelude to what will be coming on IOS and Android when we roll those out.   Mark ... View more

Looking at your MMPK in ArcGIS Pro I see the following for the Schools layer. When I look at the Schools data, I also see that none of the Areas are equal or greater than 1. The mobile map package output data, may differ from your source?   It might work better to add a specific field, and calculate the area in the desired unit for that field. Then use the new field for the definition query. The shape fields are a bit special with regard to converting from one data type to another, and I think that is what you are seeing here. Mark ... View more

Christian, When you ran the Geotagged Photos to Points tool did you 'Add Photos as Attachments'? The photos need to be attached to the points in order to see them as an attachment in Explorer. Mark ... View more

Adam, With regard to access and sharing  Brian's understanding is correct.  If you don't want the Mobile Map Package to be public, your map users will need a viewer account, so you can invite them to access the map through a private group. There also is a version of Explorer for ArcGIS, currently in Beta that can be used on Windows 10 devices. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/explorer-for-arcgis-beta/9p47gjtlm9nt?activetab=pivot:overviewtab https://community.esri.com/groups/explorer-beta Mark ... View more

Diane, You could calculate the Description field to get it they way you want it. On the 'Data' tab, click the description field and Calculate Then using Arcade - calculate the field to be the HTML that you want. var a = '' a = '<a href="'+$feature["desc_"]+'" target="_blank">More Info</a>' return a Mark ... View more

Great Tim.....  reminder to self to always verify version...  ... View more

In Explorer are you searching for them? If you can see them via the web browser on ArcGIS Online, Explorer should have access to show them in the search results. ... View more

Tim, Are you signing into Explorer for ArcGIS or are you using by continuing without signing in? If you are continuing without signing in, you need to "enable the map for anonymous use" this setting is available via the ArcGIS Publisher Extension. This article describes mostly how to add a hillshade to a mobile map, but also mentions enabling a map for anonymous use.   If you have the Publisher Extension you will see the option to enable for anonymous use. Mark ... View more

Sunny, For World Dark Gray, if you ended up with a TPK when you downloaded the map, it means that your organization is not using the Esri vector basemaps.   It is a setting that you organization administrator can set. When you downloaded your custom map it should have added the layer to your map, and the actual VTPK file will be in your Project Folder.    If you right click the layer in the Table of Contents, and click Properties you will be able to see the data source path. Mark ... View more

Tim, Did you remove the basemap layers from the map.  If the TPK layer is the only layer in the map, the Package Mobile Map tool should not give an error. Mark ... View more

Sunny, Yes, you can.  This article show how to customize a Vector Tile Service, Extract a Vector Tile Package from the service and put it in a Mobile Map Package, for use in an application. Mark ... View more