Create an offline app with predefined areas

In this tutorial, you will build a partially offline app with a predefined offline map area. A predefined map area is created ahead of time in a web map and can be downloaded for offline use in your application. This workflow is known as the ahead-of-time workflow. This tutorial also allows you to add additional data as a feature layerA feature layer (client-side) is a data layer that can access and display features from a feature service that has the same type of geometry and attribute fields.Learn more to your map.

What you'll learn

This tutorial shows you how to:

• Create a web map with the Map Viewer.
• Create a feature service in ArcGIS portal.
• Enable the web map and feature layer for offline use.
• Draw offline map areas in the web map item settings page.
• Create an API key credential to access the web map.
• Use an access token to access the web map and feature layer.
• Display the offline map area with the ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps.

What you'll need

Before you begin, you need the following:

An ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise account
A development IDE for your chosen ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps
A device or emulator to run the app