Animate images with image overlay

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Animate a series of images with an image overlay.

Image of animate images with image overlay

Use case

An image overlay is useful for displaying fast and dynamic images; for example, rendering real-time sensor data captured from a drone. Each frame from the drone becomes a static image which is updated on the fly as the data is made available.

How to use the sample

The application loads a map of the Southwestern United States. Tap the "Start" or "Stop" button to toggle the radar animation. Use the drop down menu to select how quickly the animation plays. Move the slider to change the opacity of the image overlay.

How it works

  1. Create an ImageOverlay and add it to the SceneView.
  2. Set up a timer with an initial interval time of 68ms, which will display approximately 15 ImageFrames per second.
  3. Connect to the timeout signal from the timer.
  4. Create a new image frame every timeout and set it on the image overlay.

Relevant API

  • ImageFrame
  • ImageOverlay
  • SceneView

About the data

These radar images were captured by the US National Weather Service (NWS). They highlight the Pacific Southwest sector which is made up of part the western United States and Mexico. For more information visit the National Weather Service website.

Offline Data

  1. Download the data from ArcGIS Online.
  2. Open your command prompt and navigate to the folder where you extracted the contents of the data from step 1.
  3. Push the data into the scoped storage of the sample app:

adb push PacificSouthWest /Android/data/com.esri.arcgisruntime.sample.animateimageswithimageoverlay/files/PacificSouthWest

Additional information

The supported image formats are GeoTIFF, TIFF, JPEG, and PNG. ImageOverlay does not support the rich processing and rendering capabilities of a RasterLayer. Use Raster and RasterLayer for static image rendering, analysis, and persistence.

Tags

3d, animation, drone, dynamic, image frame, image overlay, real time, rendering

Sample Code

MainActivity.kt
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/*
 * Copyright 2020 Esri
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 *
 */

package com.esri.arcgisruntime.sample.animateimageswithimageoverlay

import android.os.Bundle
import android.view.MotionEvent
import android.view.View
import android.widget.AdapterView
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter
import android.widget.Button
import android.widget.SeekBar
import android.widget.Spinner
import android.widget.TextView
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity
import androidx.coordinatorlayout.widget.CoordinatorLayout
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.geometry.Envelope
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.geometry.Point
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.geometry.SpatialReferences
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.layers.ArcGISTiledLayer
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.ArcGISScene
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.ArcGISTiledElevationSource
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.Basemap
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.Surface
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.Viewpoint
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.view.Camera
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.view.DefaultSceneViewOnTouchListener
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.view.ImageFrame
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.view.ImageOverlay
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.view.SceneView
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.sample.animateimageswithimageoverlay.databinding.ActivityMainBinding
import com.google.android.material.floatingactionbutton.FloatingActionButton
import java.io.File
import java.util.*
import kotlin.concurrent.fixedRateTimer

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

    private val activityMainBinding by lazy {
        ActivityMainBinding.inflate(layoutInflater)
    }

    private val sceneView: SceneView by lazy {
        activityMainBinding.sceneView
    }

    private val startStopButton: Button by lazy {
        activityMainBinding.startStopButton
    }

    private val fab: FloatingActionButton by lazy {
        activityMainBinding.fab
    }

    private val opacitySeekBar: SeekBar by lazy {
        activityMainBinding.opacitySeekBar
    }

    private val currOpacityTextView: TextView by lazy {
        activityMainBinding.currOpacityTextView
    }

    private val fpsSpinner: Spinner by lazy {
        activityMainBinding.fpsSpinner
    }

    private val imageFrames: MutableList<ImageFrame> by lazy { mutableListOf() }
    private var imageIndex: Int = 0

    private var timer: Timer? = null
    private var isTimerRunning = true
    private var period: Long = 67

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(activityMainBinding.root)

        // create a new tiled layer from the World Dark Gray Base REST service
        val worldDarkGrayBasemap =
            ArcGISTiledLayer("https://services.arcgisonline.com/arcgis/rest/services/Canvas/World_Dark_Gray_Base/MapServer")

        // create a new elevation source from the Terrain3D REST service
        val elevationSource =
            ArcGISTiledElevationSource("https://elevation3d.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/WorldElevation3D/Terrain3D/ImageServer")

        // create an envelope of the pacific southwest sector for displaying the image frame
        val pointForImageFrame =
            Point(-120.0724273439448, 35.131016955536694, SpatialReferences.getWgs84())
        val pacificSouthwestEnvelope =
            Envelope(pointForImageFrame, 15.09589635986124, -14.3770441522488)

        // create a camera, looking at the pacific southwest sector
        val observationPoint = Point(-116.621, 24.7773, 856977.0)
        val camera = Camera(observationPoint, 353.994, 48.5495, 0.0)
        val pacificSouthwestViewpoint = Viewpoint(pacificSouthwestEnvelope, camera)

        // create a scene with the dark gray basemap and elevation source
        val darkGrayScene =
            ArcGISScene(Basemap(worldDarkGrayBasemap), Surface(listOf(elevationSource)))

        // create the scene view
        sceneView.apply {
            // add the scene to the scene view
            scene = darkGrayScene
            // set the view point to the pacific south west
            setViewpoint(pacificSouthwestViewpoint)
            // create and append an image overlay to the scene view
            imageOverlays.add(ImageOverlay())
        }

        // get the image files from local storage as an unordered list
        (File(getExternalFilesDir(null).toString() + "/PacificSouthWest").listFiles())?.let { imageFiles ->
            // sort the list of image files
            Arrays.sort(imageFiles)
            imageFiles.forEach { file ->
                // create an image with the given path and use it to create an image frame
                val imageFrame = ImageFrame(file.path, pacificSouthwestEnvelope)
                imageFrames.add(imageFrame)
            }
        }

        // setup touch and ui element behaviours
        setupUI()
    }

    /**
     * Create a new image frame from the image at the current index and add it to the image overlay.
     */
    private fun addNextImageFrameToImageOverlay() {
        // set image frame to image overlay
        sceneView.imageOverlays[0].imageFrame = imageFrames[imageIndex]
        // increment the index to keep track of which image to load next
        imageIndex++
        // reset index once all files have been loaded
        if (imageIndex == imageFrames.size)
            imageIndex = 0
    }

    /**
     * Toggles starting and stopping the timer on button tap.
     */
    fun toggleAnimationTimer(view: View) {
        isTimerRunning = when {
            isTimerRunning -> {
                // cancel any running timer
                timer?.cancel()
                // change the start/stop button to "start"
                startStopButton.text = getString(R.string.start)
                // set the isTimerRunning flag to false
                false
            }
            else -> {
                createNewTimer()
                // change the start/stop button to "stop"
                startStopButton.text = getString(R.string.stop)
                // set the isTimerRunning flag to true
                true
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Create a new timer for the given period which repeatedly calls animateImagesWithImageOverlay.
     */
    private fun createNewTimer() {
        timer = fixedRateTimer("Image overlay timer", period = period) {
            addNextImageFrameToImageOverlay()
        }
    }

    /**
     * Sets up UI behaviour. Closes expandable floating action button on touching the scene view.
     * Moves floating action button on attribution view expanded. Expands floating action button on
     * tap. Defines seek bar to control image overlay opacity. Populates and defines behaviour of the
     * FPS (frames per second) spinner.
     */
    private fun setupUI() {
        sceneView.apply {
            // create a touch listener
            setOnTouchListener(object : DefaultSceneViewOnTouchListener(sceneView) {
                // close the options sheet when the map is tapped
                override fun onTouch(view: View?, motionEvent: MotionEvent?): Boolean {
                    if (fab.isExpanded) {
                        fab.isExpanded = false
                    }
                    return super.onTouch(view, motionEvent)
                }
            })
            // ensure the floating action button moves to be above the attribution view
            addAttributionViewLayoutChangeListener { _, _, _, _, bottom, _, _, _, oldBottom ->
                val heightDelta = bottom - oldBottom
                (fab.layoutParams as CoordinatorLayout.LayoutParams).bottomMargin += heightDelta
            }
        }

        // show the options sheet when the floating action button is clicked
        fab.setOnClickListener {
            fab.isExpanded = !fab.isExpanded
        }

        // seek bar controls image overlay opacity
        opacitySeekBar.setOnSeekBarChangeListener(object : SeekBar.OnSeekBarChangeListener {
            override fun onProgressChanged(seekBar: SeekBar?, progress: Int, fromUser: Boolean) {
                // convert the seekbar progress (0 - 100) to a float 0.0 - 1.0
                val opacity: Float = progress.toFloat() / 100
                sceneView.imageOverlays[0].opacity = opacity
                currOpacityTextView.text = opacity.toString()
            }

            override fun onStartTrackingTouch(seekBar: SeekBar?) {}
            override fun onStopTrackingTouch(seekBar: SeekBar?) {}
        })

        // spinner controls how many image overlays to display per second
        fpsSpinner.apply {
            // create an adapter with fps options
            adapter = ArrayAdapter(
                this@MainActivity,
                android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item,
                arrayOf("60 fps", "30 fps", "15 fps")
            )
            // set period based on the fps option selected
            onItemSelectedListener = object : AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener {
                override fun onItemSelected(
                    parent: AdapterView<*>?,
                    view: View?,
                    position: Int,
                    id: Long
                ) {
                    // get the period for the chosen fps
                    period = when (position) {
                        0 -> 17 // 1000ms/17 = 60 fps
                        1 -> 33 // 1000ms/33 = 30 fps
                        2 -> 67 // 1000ms/67 = 15 fps
                        else -> 0
                    }
                    // create a new timer for this period
                    if (isTimerRunning) {
                        timer?.cancel()
                        createNewTimer()
                    }
                }

                override fun onNothingSelected(parent: AdapterView<*>?) {}
            }
            // start at 15 fps
            setSelection(2)
        }
    }

    override fun onPause() {
        // cancel timer if it's running
        if (isTimerRunning) {
            toggleAnimationTimer(startStopButton)
        }
        sceneView.pause()
        super.onPause()
    }

    override fun onResume() {
        super.onResume()
        sceneView.resume()
    }

    override fun onDestroy() {
        sceneView.dispose()
        super.onDestroy()
    }
}

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