Apply symbology to shapefile

Display a shapefile with custom symbology.

Use case

Feature layers created from shapefiles do not possess any rendering information, and will be assigned with a default symbology. You can apply custom styling to ensure that the content is visible and usable in the context of a specific map. For example, you could use this to visually differentiate between features originating from two different shapefiles, by applying a blue color to one, and a red color to the other.

How to use the sample

Pan and zoom the map to view the custom renderer applied to the feature layer created from the shapefile.

How it works

1. Create a ShapefileFeatureTable, providing the path to a shapefile.
2. Create a FeatureLayer and associate it with the ShapeFileFeatureTable.
3. Create a SimpleRenderer to override the default symbology. The simple renderer takes a symbol and applies that to all features in a layer.
4. Apply the renderer to the FeatureLayer by setting the renderer.

Relevant API

• FeatureLayer
• ShapefileFeatureTable
• SimpleFillSymbol
• SimpleLineSymbol
• SimpleRenderer

Offline data

This sample uses the Aurora Subdivisions Shapefile. It is downloaded from ArcGIS Online automatically.

About the data

This sample displays a shapefile containing subdivisions in Aurora, CO.

Additional information

While shapefiles contain no rendering information, other data sources such as Service Feature Tables or Geodatabase Feature Tables can contain such information. As a result, the rendering properties of the other data sources can be pre-defined by the author.

Tags

package, shape file, shapefile, symbology, visualization