{"id":2938256,"date":"2025-09-09T16:08:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=2938256"},"modified":"2025-09-16T16:30:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T23:30:57","slug":"feature-forms-in-arcgis-maps-sdk-for-kotlin","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/developers\/developers\/feature-forms-in-arcgis-maps-sdk-for-kotlin","title":{"rendered":"Feature forms in ArcGIS Maps SDK for Kotlin"},"author":395376,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23851,738191],"tags":[22951,774592,769742,317872],"industry":[],"product":[36571,768902,36551,36601],"class_list":["post-2938256","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-management","category-developers","tag-arcgis-content","tag-feature-forms","tag-field-maps-designer","tag-smart-forms","product-arcgis-enterprise","product-sdk-kotlin","product-arcgis-online","product-developers"],"acf":{"authors":[{"ID":395376,"user_firstname":"Mark","user_lastname":"Dugger","nickname":"Mark Dugger","user_nicename":"mdugger","display_name":"Mark Dugger","user_email":"MDugger@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2025-08-25 17:37:17","user_description":"","user_avatar":""}],"related_articles":[{"ID":1520172,"post_author":"10102","post_date":"2023-05-09 10:15:37","post_date_gmt":"2023-05-09 17:15:37","post_content":"","post_title":"Build forms with ArcGIS Field Maps","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"build-forms-in-arcgis-field-maps","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-05-09 11:42:11","post_modified_gmt":"2023-05-09 18:42:11","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=1520172","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2930951,"post_author":"320122","post_date":"2025-08-27 09:33:46","post_date_gmt":"2025-08-27 16:33:46","post_content":"","post_title":"Comprehensive Guide to Forms in ArcGIS Online","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"uplevel-editing-forms","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-10-30 16:39:01","post_modified_gmt":"2025-10-30 23:39:01","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=2930951","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":1777232,"post_author":"320832","post_date":"2024-01-03 08:00:03","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-03 16:00:03","post_content":"","post_title":"Forms aren\u2019t just for ArcGIS Field Maps anymore","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"smart-forms-arent-just-for-field-maps-anymore","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-05-22 10:32:12","post_modified_gmt":"2025-05-22 17:32:12","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=1777232","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"4","filter":"raw"}],"short_description":"Feature forms in an Android app created with Maps SDK for Kotlin. Code snippets. Create feature form definition with Field Maps Designer.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Apps you create with ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps can allow users to edit data. In the past, you might have created a Popup<\/a> that contains some editable fields. This approach works, but it requires a good deal of coding on your part.<\/p>\n

The modern way to create an editable form is to use feature forms<\/em>, which are also known as smart forms<\/em> in other ArcGIS products. Feature forms are both powerful and easy to include in your app. This blog applies generally to Kotlin Maps SDK, Swift Maps SDK, and .NET Maps SDK, but the code snippets use Kotlin for demonstration purposes.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Trees for All<\/h2>\n

In this blog, you are the head of a volunteer group named Trees For All<\/em> that will be performing a health-check survey of historically- and botanically-significant trees designated as Heritage Trees by your city. The city has published on its ArcGIS Hub a feature service showing the heritage trees as point features. Your volunteers will visit the trees and provide updated information. To meet this data collection need, you decide to create an Android app in Kotlin that uses a feature form for collecting tree updates.<\/p>\n

The city’s feature service for the heritage trees does not allow public data collection, so you download the city’s data as a shapefile and use it to create an editable feature layer in your ArcGIS Online organization. You then create a web map, add the editable feature layer to it, and include a feature form to aid your volunteers in their work.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Feature form<\/h2>\n

The feature form provides a familiar UI for your volunteers to edit feature attributes, without you needing to create your own UI from scratch. Some of the key features of the feature forms include:<\/p>\n