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HowTo: Augmented Reality without ArCore -> kotlin + mobile sensors + Rx 💥 🚀

Augmented Reality

Do you ever wanted to play with AR a little but didn't want to dive deep into whole ARCore experience?
In our company as a part of R&D research we developed a little library that provides you with a view showing labels of the destinations provided by you. It's an open source project so you can contribute or write suggestions of new features at our repo https://github.com/netguru/ar-localizer-view-android

You can easily use it in your projects:

Using library

  1. Add repository in you projects build.gradle file

    repositories { maven { url 'https://dl.bintray.com/netguru/maven/' } ... } 
  2. Add library dependency

     dependencies { implementation 'com.netguru.arlocalizerview:arlocalizerview:0.1.0' } 
  3. Add view to your layout

     <co.netguru.arlocalizer.arview.ARLocalizerView android:id="@+id/arLocalizer" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" /> 
  4. In in arLocalizerView onCreate method you need to provide

    interface ARLocalizerDependencyProvider { fun getSensorsContext(): Context fun getARViewLifecycleOwner(): LifecycleOwner fun getPermissionActivity(): Activity } fun arLocalizerView.onCreate(arLocalizerDependencyProvider: ARLocalizerDependencyProvider) 
  5. In order to process the permission request you need to provide permission results to the view.

     fun onRequestPermissionResult( requestCode: Int, permissions: Array<out String>, grantResults: IntArray ) 
  6. Finally in order to display the destination labels on the camera preview use

    arLocalizerView.setDestinations(destinations: List<LocationData>) 

Library in action!

Library in action
Library in action
Library in action

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