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Create a notification every time a given location data source has entered and/or exited a set of features or graphics.

Geotriggers

Use case

Geotriggers can be used to notify users when they have entered or exited a geofence by monitoring a given set of features or graphics. They could be used to display contextual information to museum visitors about nearby exhibits, notify hikers when they have wandered off their desired trail, notify dispatchers when service workers arrive at a scene, or more.

How to use the sample

Observe a virtual walking tour of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. Information about the user’s current Garden Section, as well as information about nearby points of interest within 10 meters will display or be removed from the UI when the user enters or exits the buffer of each feature.

How it works

  1. Create a GeotriggerFeed with a LocationDataSource class (in this case, a SimulatedLocationDataSource).
  2. Create a FeatureFenceParameters class from a ServiceFeatureTable, a buffer distance at which to monitor each feature, an Arcade Expression, and a name for the specific geotrigger.
  3. Create a FenceGeotrigger with the geotrigger feed, a FenceRuleType, and the fence parameters.
  4. Create a GeotriggerMonitor with the fence geotrigger and call GeotriggerMonitor.start() to begin listening for events that meet the FenceRuleType.
  5. When GeotriggerMonitor.geotriggerNotification emits, capture the GeotriggerNotificationInfo.
  6. For more information about the feature that triggered the notification, cast the GeotriggerNotificationInfo to a FenceGeotriggerNotificationInfo and call FenceGeotriggerNotificationInfo.fenceGeoElement.
  7. Depending on the FenceGeotriggerNotificationInfo.fenceNotificationType display or hide information on the UI from the GeoElement’s attributes.

Relevant API

  • ArcadeExpression
  • FeatureFenceParameters
  • FenceGeotrigger
  • FenceGeotriggerNotificationInfo
  • FenceRuleType
  • GeoElement
  • Geotrigger
  • GeotriggerFeed
  • GeotriggerMonitor
  • GeotriggerNotificationInfo
  • ServiceFeatureTable
  • SimulatedLocationDataSource

About the data

This sample uses the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Geotriggers Sample ArcGIS Online Web Map which includes a georeferenced map of the garden as well as select polygon and point features to denote garden sections and points of interest. Description text and attachment images in the feature layers were provided by the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and more information can be found on the Garden Sections & Displays portion of their website. All assets are used with permission from the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. For more information, visit the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden website.

Tags

alert, arcade, fence, geofence, geotrigger, location, navigation, notification, notify, routing, trigger

Sample Code

FeatureListAdapter.kt FeatureListAdapter.kt FeatureViewFragment.kt MainActivity.kt
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package com.esri.arcgismaps.sample.setuplocationdrivengeotriggers
import android.view.LayoutInflater
import android.view.View
import android.view.ViewGroup
import android.widget.TextView
import androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView
import androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView.ViewHolder
import com.arcgismaps.data.ArcGISFeature
/**
* Provides a reference view holder to a custom view type
* for the FeatureListAdapter
*/
class FeatureViewHolder(view: View) : ViewHolder(view) {
// shows the title information
val titleView: TextView by lazy {
view.findViewById(R.id.featureNameTextView)
}
}
/**
* Custom RecyclerView Adapter to display the list of points of interests [featuresList]
* [onItemClickListener] event is called when an itemView clicks
*/
class FeatureListAdapter(
private val featuresList: List<ArcGISFeature>,
private var onItemClickListener: (ArcGISFeature) -> Unit
) : RecyclerView.Adapter<FeatureViewHolder>() {
override fun onBindViewHolder(holder: FeatureViewHolder, position: Int) {
// bind the feature information to each item view
val feature = featuresList[position]
// set the title
holder.titleView.text = feature.attributes["name"].toString()
// set the onClickListener to pass the item's feature
holder.titleView.setOnClickListener {
onItemClickListener(feature)
}
}
override fun onCreateViewHolder(parent: ViewGroup, viewType: Int): FeatureViewHolder {
// inflate the item's view with the layout resource
val view = LayoutInflater.from(parent.context)
.inflate(R.layout.feature_list_item, parent, false)
return FeatureViewHolder(view)
}
override fun getItemCount(): Int {
return featuresList.size
}
}