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Offline mapping apps guide

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Introduction
Types of offline apps
How to build an offline app
Types of mobile data sources
Partially offline apps
Fully offline apps
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Tutorials

Learn how to use developer toolsTools, also known as developer tools, are ArcGIS software applications such as portal and ArcGIS Pro that developers can use to prepare content and data for custom applications they are building.Learn more, APIs, and SDKs to access services and build applications.

Partially offline apps

Create an offline app with predefined areas

Learn how to build an offline app using an offline-enabled web map and feature layer using the ahead-of-time workflow.

Create an offline app with user-defined areas

Learn how to build an offline app using an offline-enabled web map and feature layer using the on-demand workflow.

Map Viewer showing parcel boundaries over Santa Monica, California.

Create an offline-enabled web map

Use Map Viewer and the ArcGIS portal to create an offline-enabled web map.

ArcGIS portal Map Viewer

Portal interface showing a web map with user-drawn polygons to define offline map areas.

Create an offline map area

Use your portal to create an offline map area from an offline-enabled web map.

A mobile map package created in ArcGIS Pro.

Create a mobile map package

Use ArcGIS Pro to create a mobile map package.

An offline map of Naperville, Illinois displaying the stormwater network.

Display an offline map on demand

Download and display an offline map for a custom area of a web map.

.NET Maps SDK Swift Maps SDK Kotlin Maps SDK Flutter Maps SDK Qt Maps SDK

An offline map loaded from a mobile map package containing a basemap layer and a data layer.

Display a map from a mobile map package

Access and display a map from a mobile map package for offline use.

.NET Maps SDK Java Maps SDK Swift Maps SDK Kotlin Maps SDK Qt Maps SDK Flutter Maps SDK

Apply scheduled updates to preplanned map area

Apply scheduled updates to a downloaded preplanned map area.

Swift Maps SDK Flutter Maps SDK .NET Maps SDK Qt Maps SDK

Download preplanned map area

Take a map offline using a preplanned map area.

Kotlin Maps SDK Swift Maps SDK Flutter Maps SDK .NET Maps SDK Qt Maps SDK

Edit and sync features

Synchronize offline edits with a feature service.

Kotlin Maps SDK Swift Maps SDK .NET Maps SDK Qt Maps SDK

Generate geodatabase replica from feature service

Generate a local geodatabase from an online feature service.

Kotlin Maps SDK Swift Maps SDK .NET Maps SDK Qt Maps SDK

Generate offline map with local basemap

Take a web map offline, but instead of downloading an online basemap, use one which is already on the device.

Swift Maps SDK .NET Maps SDK Qt Maps SDK

Generate offline map with custom parameters

Take a web map offline with additional options for each layer.

Kotlin Maps SDK Swift Maps SDK .NET Maps SDK Qt Maps SDK

Generate offline map (overrides)

Take a web map offline.

Kotlin Maps SDK Swift Maps SDK Flutter Maps SDK .NET Maps SDK Qt Maps SDK

Geocode offline

Geocode addresses to locations and reverse geocode locations to addresses offline.

Kotlin Maps SDK Swift Maps SDK .NET Maps SDK Qt Maps SDK

Offline routing

Solve a route on-the-fly using offline data.

Kotlin Maps SDK Swift Maps SDK .NET Maps SDK Qt Maps SDK

Fully offline apps

Create an offline app with a mobile map package

Learn how to build an offline app using a mobile map package created in ArcGIS Pro.

A mobile map package created in ArcGIS Pro.

Create a mobile map package

Use ArcGIS Pro to create a mobile map package.

An offline map loaded from a mobile map package containing a basemap layer and a data layer.

Display a map from a mobile map package

Access and display a map from a mobile map package for offline use.

.NET Maps SDK Java Maps SDK Swift Maps SDK Kotlin Maps SDK Qt Maps SDK Flutter Maps SDK

Honor mobile map package expiration date

Access the expiration information of an expired mobile map package.

.NET Maps SDK Qt Maps SDK

Find route in mobile map package

Display maps and use locators to enable search and routing offline using a mobile map package.

Swift Maps SDK Flutter Maps SDK .NET Maps SDK Qt Maps SDK

Display scene from mobile scene package

Display a scene from a mobile scene package.

Kotlin Maps SDK Swift Maps SDK Flutter Maps SDK .NET Maps SDK Qt Maps SDK

Display map from mobile map package

Display a map from a mobile map package.

Kotlin Maps SDK Swift Maps SDK Flutter Maps SDK .NET Maps SDK Qt Maps SDK

Partially offline apps
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