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This update contains a minor fix to the SDK Eclipse plugin. The v1.1 Eclipse plugin was not honoring our new Classpath Container for ArcGIS for Android projects.
Eclipse classpath containers are an organized, user-friendly way to manage Java build paths in Eclipse. ArcGIS Android project dependencies are a group of java libraries referenced as ArcGIS for Android 1.1.1. The view of the libraries is simplified in the Eclipse Java Perspective as a single entry that can be expanded to view the entire set.
The 1.1.1 SDK plugin has been fixed to ensure the libraries are honored in new projects and samples. There is no change to the API or the functionality.
The Android SDK team recently released an upgraded faster emulator that has support for native OpenGL ES 2.0! This is a key tool for ArcGIS Android developers in building and testing their apps. We have been testing on all platforms and today can announce support for ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Android apps working on the emulator on all platforms, Mac, Linux, and Windows. Here are the steps to configure your development environment:
1. On all platforms ensure that you have ‘ARM EABI v7a System Image installed for Android 4.0.3 (API 15).
It was great to see all of you at this year’s Developer Summit! Hopefully you were able to come by the Islands, Meet the Teams, or attend a Technical Workshop and chat with one of us:
We received lots of good feedback from you this year, and we are pleased to announce that v3.0 Final of the ArcGIS API for Silverlight will support development with both Silverlight 4 and Silverlight 5!
In addition to talking with you about your work and getting feedback, one of our goals every year at the Developer Summit is to provide Technical Workshops with valuable information, best practices, and samples that you can take back with you. If you attended the Developer Summit but missed any of the Silverlight/SharePoint/Windows Phone presentations, or were unable to attend and would like the info, here are a few links you may find of interest:
You can find the Plenary, Keynote and Closing sessions HERE
And all of the Tech Workshop vids HERE
Here are the vids specifically from the Geodatabase Team:
Accessing Geodata through RESTful Services
Accessing and Administrating your Enterprise Geodatabase through SQL and Python
Effective Geodatabase Programming
Building Web Editing Applications with ArcGIS 10.1 for Server
ENJOY!
I’m happy to announce the availability of the Pre-Release of the new ArcGIS Runtime SDK for WPF and Java. For more information visit www.esri.com/runtime.
ArcGIS Runtime SDK for WPF and Java enables developers to build rich, highly functional GIS applications that take full advantage of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or the Java SE platform, yet the applications can have a small footprint.
In a connected scenario, the application can consume content and services from ArcGIS Server, or ArcGIS Online (including hosted services available as part of an ArcGIS Online subscription), and Portal for ArcGIS. In a disconnected scenario (your users don’t have a network or Internet connection), you can provision their devices with local packages containing GIS resources, such as maps, data, and geoprocessing tools, so that users can work while disconnected. Spatial analysis, geocoding, routing, and editing can all be performed against the local packages.
Your application can have both online and local content and capabilities.ArcGIS Runtime allows for modular deployment; you select the subset of ArcGIS Runtime components necessary to support the GIS functionality you have chosen to include with your application.
We’re pleased to announce the localized releases of ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight 1.0.1 and ArcGIS for SharePoint 2.1.1. These releases add support for Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish to both products.
For the ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight, simply download and run the setup for a particular language. Then text within the Application Builder and all deployed Viewer applications will be shown in that language.
It was great seeing everyone from the Flex user community at the Developer Summit this year. If you were unable to attend hopefully we can see you next year or at the User’s Conference this summer. We received many questions and comments, and wanted to share some of it with everyone.
What’s going on with Flex at Esri?
The Flex Team at Esri is growing and doing great. In the last few months we’ve added three new team members. For more information about Flex at Esri and Adobe, please read the following posts.
- Some thoughts on the direction of the ArcGIS web mapping APIs (JavaScript, Flex, and Silverlight) [Esri]
- Adobe’s view of Flex and its commitments to Flex in the future [Adobe]
- Adobe roadmap for the Flash runtimes [Adobe]
Mobile
I’m always surprised by the number of people that don’t know that you can use the Flex SDK and the ArcGIS API for Flex to build mobile applications for Blackberry, Android, and iOS devices. Several people came by with new iPads and showed us some great Flex apps. The interest in mobile was more popular than expected at this year’s conference, possibly due to the fact we showcased it in several Technical Workshops. Below is a basic example of the ArcGIS API for Flex running as a native application on an iPad 2.
The Mobile Team is pleased to announce that v1.1 of the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Android is now available for download from the resource center. Some of the improvements made in this release include:
API
- Ability to search for and access content, users, and groups on portals such as ArcGIS.com
- Support for Advanced Symbology which processes features whose definitions are stored locally on your device.
- Support for multiple MapViews in a single application allowing you to switch activities in a single application supporting multiple MapViews.
- Group Layers support all layer types including graphics layers and provides the ability to manipulate sub-layer visibility, opacity, and order.
- Support for secured services in web maps.
- Add Esri logo to ArcGIS Online Maps
SDK
- Support for revision 17 of the Android SDK Tools and of the Eclipse ADT plug-in.
- Project libs, e.g. ArcGIS_Android.jar, are packaged as a User Library.
- Redesigned Eclipse New Sample wizard
- New API Samples
And much more! You can refer to the documentation for more information about these improvements and how to migrate your existing applications to the new SDK.
For all of you who made it out to Palm Springs for the Developer Summit, thank you for coming and attending the sessions. We will soon make the Android application that was shown in the plenary and tech sessions available as a sample on the resource center. We hope to see you again at this year’s User Conference in San Diego.
This update contains a minor fix to the SDK installer. The v2.2 installer was unnecessarily laying down files related to ArcGIS Project Templates for XCode. As many of you might recall, these templates were deprecated and removed back at v2.1.
In majority of the cases, the laying down of these template files did not cause any harm. However, in exceptional cases, users were not able to install the v2.2 SDK due to permission issues related to where the files were being written. Even worse, the templates were being recognized by XCode giving users the false impression that ArcGIS project templates were still available and supported in v2.2. We would like to clarify that these templates are legacy, left over from the pre-v2.1 days.
The 2.2.1 installer has been fixed to not lay down the templates. There is no change to the API or the functionality.
On the heels of yet another engaging Developer Summit, we are happy to announce that v2.2 of ArcGIS Runtime SDK for iOS is now available for download from the resource center. Some of the improvements made in this release include -
- Ability to search for and access content, users, and groups on portals such as ArcGIS.com
- Support for WMS layers
- Conversion to and from Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) coordinates
- Improved performance of geometric operations using AGSGeometryEngine.
- Better handling of “No Data” tiles for tiled layers
- Faster loading of popups
- Faster rendering of graphics
- and much more…
You can refer to the documentation for more information about these improvments and how to migrate your existing applications to the new SDK.
For all of you who made it out to Palm Springs for the Developer Summit, thank you for coming and attending the sessions. We will soon make the iOS application that was shown in the plenary and tech sessions available as a sample on the resource center. We hope to see you again at this year’s User Conference in San Diego.
Contributed by Divesh Goyal of the ArcGIS for iOS Development Team
