Release notes for 200.4

Snapping

The GeometryEditor now supports feature snapping when interactively creating and editing geometries. Snapping allows you to create geometries that connect and are coincident, so that interactive edits are more accurate, with fewer errors. When snapping is enabled in the SnapSettings, visual cues indicate to the user when edits have snapped to features. See SnapSource for information about configuring layers to be valid SnapSourceSettings.

Using the magnifier with a vertex move allows users of touch devices to clearly see the visual cues for snapping.

The snapping functionality provides one of a series of geometry editing enhancements that will roll out in future releases.

Attribute editing with feature forms

New to Native Maps SDKs in 200.4 is support for attribute editing using feature forms. Feature forms streamline the attribute editing experience across the ArcGIS ecosystem and are now supported in the .NET Maps SDK, Kotlin Maps SDK, and Swift Maps SDK. For more information about using the feature forms API, see the Edit attribute values topic in this guide.

A new toolkit component provides an out-of-the-box feature forms editing experience that you can integrate into your apps. For more information about the toolkit capabilities, see the FeatureForm component in the Kotlin Toolkit API Reference.

The toolkit component provides a convenient way to add attribute editing capabilities to an app without writing a lot of code. It supports a variety of control types for accepting input attribute values, including single-line and multi-line text boxes, multiple choice controls (such as combo boxes and radio buttons), on/off switches, and a date-time picker control. These editing controls can be arranged and organized into groups and support custom Arcade expressions to control whether form controls are visible, editable, or require a value. Arcade expressions can also be used to compute the value for an attribute (perhaps based on the value of other attributes).

If you need a more tailored attribute editing UI and user experience, use the API to read the form definition from a feature layer in a web map and build a completely custom UI that fits your requirements. See the FeatureForm class for more information.

The following feature form functionality isn't currently supported: Editing the subtype field, attachments, relationships, and barcode input type.

Support for OGC 3D Tiles Layer

This release of ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps adds support for a new layer type Ogc3DTilesLayer. The layer is based on the OGC specification for 3D Tiles. With Ogc3DTilesLayer, you can add 3D Tiles data from a public service, portal item, or a local file that includes .3tz files. The layer behaves similar to ArcGISSceneLayer and can also participate in 3D analyses.

Clustering support for GraphicsOverlay

This release adds support for clustering point graphics on a GraphicsOverlay in dynamic rendering mode. In addition, there are new APIs to highlight an aggregate geoelement in a clustered FeatureLayer or GraphicsOverlay and get access to the underlying geoelements.

Dynamic entity track line rendering

With this release, track line attributes have been enhanced to include the entity ID attribute that uniquely identifies the track. This means you can now apply a renderer to trackLineRenderer in the TrackDisplayProperties that highlights or distinguishes between tracks using one of the attribute-based renderers.

New field types

ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps now supports fields to store the following types of date and time values:

• Date only—Store values that indicate a day, month, and year. No time values are stored for date only fields.
• Time only—Store values that describe a moment in time (hours, minutes, and seconds).
• Timestamp offset—Store date and time values that include the time offset from the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

Big integer and 64-bit ObjectID fields are also now supported.

Relative date and time queries

Relative date and time queries are now supported with all date fields (except time only) by providing the intervals in the query. Relative date queries can be performed relative to the current date or to a specified (anchored) date.

Support for shortest path traces while offline

ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps now supports the shortest path trace type for offline utility networks. This type of trace requires two starting points and a network attribute (such as shape length) and returns the shortest path based on the provided attribute. This means that utility networks with full topology from a stand-alone or sync enabled mobile geodatabase now support all of the trace types that utility networks from a feature service support.

Licensing changes

A Utility Network extension license is no longer required to analyze (trace) utility networks, and has been removed from these methods: UtilityNetwork.trace(), UtilityNetwork.queryNamedTraceConfigurations(), and ArcGISMap.getNamedTraceConfigurationsFromUtilityNetwork().

A new Advanced Editing extension license is now required to edit utility network features as well as create a version and edit features and tables in a branch version enabled feature service. This extension requires a minimum ArcGIS Runtime license level of Basic. Detailed information about the licensing changes made for ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps 200.4 and the specific methods that will require this license extension can be found in the License levels and capabilities topic in this guide.

Indoor positioning definition property on maps

An IndoorPositioningDefinition property is now exposed from the ArcGISMap class. For an IPS-aware map, it provides all information needed to create an IndoorsLocationDataSource and conforms to the Loadable pattern.

New constructor for an indoors location data source

This release adds a new constructor to the IndoorsLocationDataSource that takes an IndoorPositioningDefinition. This provides a consistent and straightforward approach for creating an IndoorsLocationDataSource using IPS information stored with an IPS-aware map.

Indoors location data source configuration

An IndoorsLocationDataSource can now be configured using an instance of the new IndoorsLocationDataSourceConfiguration class.

Support for Arcade 1.26

This SDK now supports Arcade 1.26

The following linear referencing functions have been added:

• DistanceToCoordinate

• MeasureToCoordinate

• PointToCoordinate

• DefaultValue and HasKey have been updated to support checking nested dictionaries, arrays, and geometries.

Notes: KnowledgeGraph functionality which is available in Arcade version 1.26 with support in Pro and Online will be available in a future ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps release. The profile variables, $userInput and $graph, added to the PopUp and Popup Element profiles are currently set to null. A non-null $userInput implementation is planned for an upcoming release.

Coordinate systems and transformations

Available coordinate systems and transformations have been updated to EPSG v11.003. These include the Equi7 projected coordinate systems, which divide the world into seven continental areas and are designed for imagery use. New vertical transformations based on geoids, quasi-geoids, or other conversion grids can transform to or between gravity-related vertical coordinate systems for the British Isles, Corsica (France), Finland, New Zealand, St. Helena Island, and the United States. The National Geodetic Survey's historic geoid models (GEOID99, GEOID03, GEOID06, and GEOID09) and VERTCON 3.0 conversion grids for the United States are now supported. Vertical transformations using VERTCON 2.1 grids are deprecated but remain available. Transformations using VERTCON 2.1 grids appear at the bottom of the list of transformation paths.

Introducing new composable MapView and SceneView

Two new composable components, MapView and SceneView, are introduced in this release. These components are available via the GeoView-Compose toolkit module and can directly be used in your compose-based applications declaratively. See the toolkit documentation for more details.

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setContent {
    SampleAppTheme {
        // create a map with a basemap style
        val map = ArcGISMap(BasemapStyle.ArcGISImagery)
        MapView(
		      modifier = Modifier.fillMaxSize(),
		      arcGISMap = map
		    )
	  }
}

Network interception

In this release, the Request class has been enhanced to support modification of headers and parameters of existing requests using the Request.newBuilder() function. The following functions are now available: Request.Builder.removeParameter(), Request.Builder.addHeaders(), Request.Builder.setHeader(), and Request.Builder.removeHeader(). These can be used when modifying a request with the Interceptor API.

Here's a sample usage:

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val interceptor = object : Interceptor {
    override fun intercept(chain: Chain): Response {
        val requestToProceed = chain.request().let { request ->
            if (request.url.contains(trackingServiceURL, ignoreCase = true)) {
                request.newBuilder()
                    .setHeader("Authorization", "Token Bearer")
                    .removeParameter("user")
                    .build()
            } else {
                request
            }
        }
        return chain.proceed(requestToProceed)
    }
}

These enhancements provide more flexibility and control over the HTTP requests.

Portal user properties

The following new properties are added to the PortalUser class: userId, availableCredits, and assignedCredits.

• IndoorsLocationDataSource.positioningTable is declared as nullable. New maps that are IPS aware don't contain a positioning table, thus this property may return null after initialization of the IndoorsLocationDataSource.

• ArcGIS Pro 3.3 introduces the ability to define output fields (Reverse Output Fields) for reverse geocode operations. With locators created using ArcGIS Pro 3.3 and later, only fields enabled in Reverse Output Fields are returned from a reverse geocode operation in 200.4 and later. Supported output fields for geocode operations (including reverse geocode) are listed in the REST API under Geocode Service output fields. For locators created before ArcGIS Pro 3.3, reverse geocode results contain all output fields. In a future release of ArcGIS Maps SDK for Kotlin, all locators will only be able to return supported output fields in reverse geocode results.

• Following the deprecation of VERTCON 2.1 and introduction of VERTCON 3.0 by National Geodetic Survey, vertical transformations using VERTCON 3.0 grids will now be returned from appropriate TransformationCatalog calls. Vertical transformations using VERTCON 2.1 grids remain usable and will still be returned from TransformationCatalog.getTransformationsBySuitability calls but will now appear at the bottom of the returned lists which are sorted by suitability. To make use of transformations using VERTCON 3.0 grids, the required grid files must be deployed with your app. These can be found in the Projection Engine Data download for this release. See the Projection Engine updates section for additional coordinate system and transformation enhancements introduced with this release.

• In this release, we made some improvements to the attribution bar (the small strip of attribution text and Esri logo that appears at the bottom of the MapView and SceneView). These improvements introduced some changes in behavior:
  • When there is more attribution text than can fit on a single line, a user can tap on the attribution bar to expand it. The maximum expandable height of the attribution bar is now limited to half the height of the MapView/SceneView. If the text still doesn't fit in the fully expanded attribution bar, the user can now scroll the text up/down by dragging a pointer across the text.
  • Due to the introduction of the scrolling behavior and limiting the max height, the absolute values of the top and bottom bounds reported by GeoView.onAttributionBarLayoutChanged are different from previous releases. However, the relative differences between subsequent events remain the same.

• The method fetchHomePageFeaturedContent is deprecated on Portal class.
• The properties homePageFeaturedContentCount, homePageFeaturedContentGroupQuery and showHomePageDescription are deprecated on PortalInfo class.

• Old implementation of ComposableMap in toolkit is deprecated. Use the latest composable Mapview provided in the GeoView-Compose module.

There are no OS or framework deprecations with this release.

Issues addressed in this release are listed below.

• Geodatabase methods for managing transactions (beginTransaction(), commitTransaction(), and rollbackTransaction()) have been made thread-independent. Any thread can end a transaction started by any other thread, integrating with modern language and platforms' concurrency models.

• SceneView does not honor some interactionOptions like pan and fling.
• Expanded attribution text can flicker and may be truncated.

Known issues or limitations for this release are listed below.

• BUG-000166643: A sceneview containing a scene with vector tiled layer can result in a crash if it's created and destroyed repeatedly. A possible workaround is to avoid using a vector tiled layer as a basemap, for example as an imagery basemap.

• BUG-000171844: Using scheduled updates with ArcGIS Maps SDK for Native Apps incorrectly downloads an entire new replica instead of incremental changes.

• BUG-000171919: Creating an offline replica, with a full utility network, incorrectly requires that all layers from the feature service are included.

• BUG-000171920: The OfflineMapTask can fail to create an offline replica when including a utility network.

Enhancements

• The Gradle files of the samples project have been updated, transitioning from Groovy DSL to Kotlin DSL.
• All new Kotlin SDK samples will be built utilizing Jetpack Compose, leveraging the GeoView-Compose Toolkit module.
• The following twelve Android view-based samples have been migrated to utilize the GeoView-Compose toolkit component.
  • Add dynamic entity layer
  • Add scene layer with elevation
  • Analyze hotspots
  • Display clusters
  • Display Composable MapView
  • Display scene from mobile scene package
  • Identify layer features
  • Manage operational layers
  • Query feature table
  • Show coordinates in multiple formats
  • Show magnifier
  • Show viewshed from point in scene
• In forthcoming releases, there will be a systematic migration of some android view-based samples to Jetpack Compose.
• Renamed Display points using clustering feature reduction to Display clusters to be more concise.