Latest Contributions by RexHansen

Indeed, we've been working on game engine integration for a while so good to see it announced - and demonstrated exceptionally well   Best place to stay up to date on our game engine work is the ArcGIS for Game Engines beta program: https://esriurl.com/a4ge    It's a public opportunity, just need to fill out a survey to get in.  The first set of beta deliverables should be available early Q3 2020.   Also, we originally had a Dev Summit tech session on our developer offerings for game engines, but as Dev Summit was cancelled, we now intend to host as a webinar in early April.  We'll provide updates/details on these upcoming events to those in the beta program.            ... View more

Hi Michael,      Yes, unfortunate about the cancellation of the event as we also look forward to discussions about current and future Runtime work.    1) We are working on Metal support at the moment.  It should be introduced with the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for iOS with 100.8.   It will be delivered with iOS support in the Runtime SDKs for .NET and Qt after 100.8.    When support for Metal is included, OpenGL will not longer be supported.  This will prevent use of the AGSMapView and AGSSceneView in the Xcode simulator, unless the following requirements are met: - Xcode 11 - Catalina (macOS 10.15) - app targets iOS 13  2)  Yes, we're working on better location enablement in Runtime in the latter half of this year (100.9 in Aug, 100.10 in Dec).  This includes support for high accuracy GNSS (position correction information from GNSS, access number of satellites, etc).   It also includes better information about the current location (eg notification about location changes), additional location sources (eg indoor positioning), and geofencing.          3)  Support for mesh network radios is still in the near term backlog for Runtime, but not yet scheduled for a release in 2020.    4) There are no specific plans at the moment to record or host a virtual Road Ahead session for Runtime.   Feel free to reach out via GeoNET, your account manager, or tech support if you have questions.        Keep in mind, all information I have presented above is subject to change.  Thanks -Rex           ... View more

Thanks Jean,       Apologies, support for clustering is taking longer than expected, however, we do plan to deliver in 2020.  To provide consistent support across the ArcGIS platform, we intend to target support for clustering (client) and binning (server) with respect to feature layers.    Client side clustering will follow a map centric approach:  featureReduction_cluster | ArcGIS for Developers  Configure clustering—ArcGIS Online Help | Documentation  Binning will focus on a service centric approach, more specifically, binning as a new functionality delivered with map services published from ArcGIS Pro 2.4 and later to ArcGIS Enterprise 10.7.1: Aggregate features into bins—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation    Incidentally, you should see support for clustering/binning coming in ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.x in 2020 as well.  We are on a similar timeline with respect to this feature.   Hope this helps,  -Rex ... View more

Hi Jean,      Support for feature and graphic clustering is in our backlog, but not currently scheduled for a release.  Can you describe the clustering experience/scenario you'd like us to support?   Thanks -Rex ... View more

Hi Manasa, No.  As mentioned in my previous reply, we plan to introduce a navigation API into ArcGIS Runtime in a release in the latter half (ie Q3-Q4) of 2019.   ... View more

Hi Kirk,     Support for group layer in the Runtime API will be in 100.5, due to be released in early April.  As a developer you will be able create and use group layers with operational layers in a map or scene.   Persistence is a different matter.  The scene spec (mobile and web) has a formalized definition for group layer.   Runtime 100.5 will honor group layers in a web scene or mobile scene package.   The map spec (mobile and web) does not have a formalized definition for group layer.  When this is formalized, Runtime will be able to read/write maps with group layers.   ArcGIS Pro 2.3 just happens to write group layers into the mobile map.  Runtime 100.5 does not read group layers in a mobile map.   We are working to formalize the definition of group layers in the map spec (and include properties such as min and max scale) for ArcGIS Pro 2.4 and Runtime 100.6.  Hope this helps,  -Rex      ... View more

Hi Mark,     My sincere apologies for annoying you - that was not my intention.  It was however my intention to provide you with an accurate answer to your question about support for use of group layers in a mmpk by ArcGIS Runtime.   In this context, it is important to understand the need for representing the content of a map or scene in a spec.  A common spec means information can be persisted and shared in a common way, across products and platforms.  In the Road Ahead session I mentioned that group layer is not present in the web map or mobile map spec.   The web map spec is public; the mobile map spec is a superset of the web map spec and is not public.  The mobile map spec is designed to advertise a map definition for offline/encapsulated workflows with Runtime, thus it is present in a mmpk.  Unfortunately ArcGIS Pro 2.3 writes group layers into a mobile map without appropriate representation in the spec or complimentary support in Runtime.   We intend to review the group layer definition for the mobile map spec to 1) match what is in the web scene spec where it makes sense and 2) migrate to the web map spec in the near future.  We should be able to properly support group layer within the mobile map spec in Pro 2.4 and a Runtime release later this year.  Notes:  Is it possible that the group layer definition written into the mobile map by Pro 2.3 remains as is in Pro 2.4.  This will become more clear as we complete the review of the group layer spec for the mobile and web map.  Currently when ArcGIS Runtime encounters a group layer in a mobile map (in a mmpk), the group layer will be ignored and the layers it contains will be flattened (as if the group layer was not present).    Let me know if you have any further questions.  Thanks -Rex        ... View more

Great!  My email is rhansen@esri.com.  Thanks -Rex ... View more

A couple questions:  How did you create the SLPK?  If using ArcGIS Pro, which version?   What type of scene layer are you working with? Scene layers—ArcGIS Online Help | ArcGIS   If 3D object, are they textured (ie photo realistic facades for buildings) or are you using a renderer?  Approximately how many features are represented in the SLPK?  Thanks -Rex    ... View more

Unfortunately ArcGIS Runtime does not honor offset on a scene layer in a web scene or expose a property to set the offset for a scene layer, but this is in our backlog to support in an upcoming release.   A couple questions when you get the chance: 1) What type of scene layer are you using (3d object, integrated mesh, point cloud, point...)? 2) How are you creating the SLPK? 3) Can you share the scene service and/or portal item you have created with the offset? Thanks -Rex ... View more

Hi Bradley,      The text on 100.4 basically applies to all 100.x releases of the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for .NET.   With respect to .NET, the TLS version used can be defined by the .NET Framework, application logic, or operating system.  Best practice is the operating system defines the version: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/network-programming/tls    What this means is as long as the machine/device on which the .NET Runtime app is running is configured to use TLS 1.2 or greater, the client will use it.  To confirm with the app in question, you can review the network traffic to see which TLS version is being used. -Rex ... View more

Hi Emiliano,      We plan to include this functionality in a public ArcGIS Runtime release in 2019.  Ideally a release earlier in the year.  Please let us know if you have a project that requires delivery of a native app for use in production that uses AR and/or VR functionality in ArcGIS Runtime.   We would be interested in timeline and scope of use.   Thanks -Rex ... View more

Hi Manasa, Andrew,      Thank you for your feedback on what you're looking for in a navigation API.  Currently we have a number of customers who have built their own navigation experience with ArcGIS Runtime, but this required quite a lot of custom work to do things like off-route detection, snap to route, automatic route recalculation and support maneuver announcements in multiple languages.  Of course we'd like to make this process easier for developers by providing out of the box navigation capabilities.  At this stage we plan to introduce a navigation API into ArcGIS Runtime in a release in the latter half of 2019.  Hope this helps, -Rex  ... View more

Hi Manasa,    We are considering enhancing the ArcGIS Runtime APIs to support navigation functionality, such as that exhibited in Navigator (built on ArcGIS Runtime).   Can you describe some of the navigation capabilities you'd like see in a public Runtime API?    Thanks -Rex        ... View more

Unfortunately this appears to be an issue with Runtime support of systems with a graphics co-processor (eg Intel and AMD).  Unfortunately the only workaround at the moment is to use the Intel GPU.  We are actively working on a solution for Runtime, which Earth will be able to incorporate. Note, for tracking, a similar issue has been logged with tech support (BUG-000097132).   ... View more