Labeling features is useful to visually display a key piece of information or attribute of a feature on a map. For example, you may want to label rivers or streets with their names.
How to use the sample
Pan and zoom around the United States. Labels for congressional districts will be shown in red for Republican districts and blue for Democrat districts. Notice how labels pop into view as you zoom in.
How it works
Create a ServiceFeatureTable using a feature service URL.
Create a FeatureLayer from the service feature table.
Create a TextSymbol to use for displaying the label text.
Create an ArcadeLabelExpression for the label definition.
You can use fields of the feature by using $feature.field_name in the expression.
Create a new LabelDefinition from the arcade label expression and text symbol.
Add the definition to the feature layer with featureLayer.labelDefinitions.add(labelDefinition) .
Lastly, enable labels on the layer using featureLayer.setLabelsEnabled().
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*/package com.esri.arcgisruntime.showlabelsonlayer;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.Toast;
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.ArcGISRuntimeEnvironment;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.arcgisservices.LabelDefinition;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.arcgisservices.LabelingPlacement;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.data.ServiceFeatureTable;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.layers.FeatureLayer;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.loadable.LoadStatus;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.ArcGISMap;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.BasemapStyle;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.Viewpoint;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.labeling.ArcadeLabelExpression;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.view.MapView;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.symbology.TextSymbol;
import java.util.Arrays;
publicclassMainActivityextendsAppCompatActivity{
privatestaticfinal String TAG = MainActivity.class.getSimpleName();
private MapView mMapView;
@OverrideprotectedvoidonCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
// authentication with an API key or named user is required to access basemaps and other// location services ArcGISRuntimeEnvironment.setApiKey(BuildConfig.API_KEY);
// create a map view and set a map mMapView = findViewById(R.id.mapView);
ArcGISMap map = new ArcGISMap(BasemapStyle.ARCGIS_LIGHT_GRAY);
mMapView.setMap(map);
// create a feature layer from an online feature service of US Congressional Districts ServiceFeatureTable serviceFeatureTable = new ServiceFeatureTable(getString(R.string.congressional_districts_url));
FeatureLayer featureLayer = new FeatureLayer(serviceFeatureTable);
map.getOperationalLayers().add(featureLayer);
// zoom to the layer when it's done loading featureLayer.addDoneLoadingListener(() -> {
if (featureLayer.getLoadStatus() == LoadStatus.LOADED) {
// set viewpoint to feature layer extent mMapView.setViewpointAsync(new Viewpoint(featureLayer.getFullExtent()));
} else {
String error = "Error loading feature layer :" + featureLayer.getLoadError().getCause();
Toast.makeText(this, error, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
Log.e(TAG, error);
}
});
LabelDefinition republicanLabelDefinition = makeLabelDefinition("Republican", Color.RED);
LabelDefinition democratLabelDefinition = makeLabelDefinition("Democrat", Color.BLUE);
// add the definitions to the feature layer featureLayer.getLabelDefinitions().addAll(Arrays.asList(republicanLabelDefinition, democratLabelDefinition));
// enable labels featureLayer.setLabelsEnabled(true);
}
/**
* Creates a label definition for a given party (field value) and color to populate a text symbol with.
*
* @param party the name of the party to be passed into the label definition's WHERE clause
* @param textColor the color to be passed into the text symbol
*
* @return label definition created from the given arcade expression
*/private LabelDefinition makeLabelDefinition(String party, int textColor){
// create text symbol for styling the label TextSymbol textSymbol = new TextSymbol();
textSymbol.setSize(12);
textSymbol.setColor(textColor);
textSymbol.setHaloColor(Color.WHITE);
textSymbol.setHaloWidth(2);
// create a label definition with an Arcade expression script ArcadeLabelExpression arcadeLabelExpression =
new ArcadeLabelExpression("$feature.NAME + \" (\" + left($feature.PARTY,1) + \")\\nDistrict \" + $feature.CDFIPS");
LabelDefinition labelDefinition = new LabelDefinition(arcadeLabelExpression, textSymbol);
labelDefinition.setPlacement(LabelingPlacement.POLYGON_ALWAYS_HORIZONTAL);
labelDefinition.setWhereClause(String.format("PARTY = '%s'", party));
return labelDefinition;
}
@OverrideprotectedvoidonPause(){
mMapView.pause();
super.onPause();
}
@OverrideprotectedvoidonResume(){
super.onResume();
mMapView.resume();
}
@OverrideprotectedvoidonDestroy(){
mMapView.dispose();
super.onDestroy();
}
}