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!