While these 3 tracks represent the drivers for adding various capabilities to the Runtime, in most cases these new capabilities have applications far beyond the specific track that helped bring them to life.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s take a look at how this shakes out.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
Utilities<\/h2>\n
Let\u2019s start with the big one! Update 6 sees the first phase of utility network support in the Runtime SDKs.<\/p>\n
Utility Network<\/h3>\n
We provide APIs to read network properties and definitions, and to understand associations between network elements and between network elements and their geographic feature representations.<\/p>\n
We also introduce APIs for network tracing. Set one or more start points on your network (either on a junction or a terminal, or along an edge), and optionally any number of barriers, and perform a trace. Traces are lightning fast and we\u2019re just starting to show what the utility network can do.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":589242,"id":589242,"title":"Utility Network Trace","filename":"Utility-NEtwork-Trace.png","filesize":134246,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Utility-NEtwork-Trace.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/developers\/announcements\/welcome-to-arcgis-runtime-100-6\/utility-network-trace","alt":"Utility Network Trace Result","author":"3811","description":"","caption":"The results of a connected trace considering start locations and barriers.","name":"utility-network-trace","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":582032,"date":"2019-08-21 20:15:33","modified":"2019-08-21 20:21:41","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1695,"height":871,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Utility-NEtwork-Trace-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Utility-NEtwork-Trace.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":238,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Utility-NEtwork-Trace.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":395,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Utility-NEtwork-Trace.png","large-width":1695,"large-height":871,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Utility-NEtwork-Trace.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":789,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Utility-NEtwork-Trace.png","2048x2048-width":1695,"2048x2048-height":871,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Utility-NEtwork-Trace-826x424.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":424,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Utility-NEtwork-Trace.png","wide_image-width":1695,"wide_image-height":871}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
At this release, all utility network capabilities in the Runtime are service based and require a network connection. We will be adding more capabilities, including working offline, in subsequent releases.<\/p>\n
To help you get up to speed we\u2019re writing additional Runtime SDK Samples to show how to take advantage of this major new technology.<\/p>\n
Update:<\/em> You can learn more in this dedicated blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":" At Update 5 we introduced Annotation and Reference Scale, which provided a sneak peek into the Utility track. Annotation support improves at Update 6 with the ability to take annotation services offline and to work with annotation sublayers.<\/p>\n Taking annotations offline is a read only workflow for now, but you can synchronize subsequent updates from an annotation service down to your Runtime app and we\u2019ll be expanding these capabilities over the next few releases.<\/p>\n We\u2019re very excited to introduce another capability that\u2019s driven by our Utility customers, but which has a broad range of applications, and that is a Navigation API.<\/p>\n Runtime has long been able to provide turn-by-turn directions, both when connected and when offline, but developers have had to write a fair bit of custom code to provide an interactive navigation experience. The new Navigation API makes it easy to integrate navigation directly into your Runtime app.\u00a0 Note, use of the Navigation API in a production app requires licensing Runtime at the Basic level.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":588632,"id":588632,"title":"Navigation","filename":"Navigation7.gif","filesize":779247,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Navigation7.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/developers\/announcements\/welcome-to-arcgis-runtime-100-6\/navigation7","alt":"Navigation in action","author":"3811","description":"","caption":"","name":"navigation7","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":582032,"date":"2019-08-20 20:40:27","modified":"2019-08-20 20:40:57","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":367,"height":337,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Navigation7-213x200.gif","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Navigation7.gif","medium-width":284,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Navigation7.gif","medium_large-width":367,"medium_large-height":337,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Navigation7.gif","large-width":367,"large-height":337,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Navigation7.gif","1536x1536-width":367,"1536x1536-height":337,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Navigation7.gif","2048x2048-width":367,"2048x2048-height":337,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Navigation7.gif","card_image-width":367,"card_image-height":337,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Navigation7.gif","wide_image-width":367,"wide_image-height":337}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":" This first release includes APIs to alert you of upcoming maneuvers, to detect when you\u2019ve wandered off route, and to automatically re-route you when using a local network dataset.<\/p>\n This is another capability that\u2019s driven by the Utilities track but which is applicable to so many other use cases. Update 6 improves working offline with Runtime in a few ways.<\/p>\n First, we\u2019re introducing Scheduled Updates. This augments the Preplanned offline workflow by generating and storing periodic read-only delta updates on the server, ready for clients to download. A Runtime app can check with the server to see which updates will bring it up-to-date, download them, and apply them in sequence.<\/p>\n This brings the performance benefits of the preplanned offline workflow (generate once, distribute broadly) to data updates. No longer will a client have to choose between waiting for the next full scheduled replica to be generated or kicking off a sync (which places a burden on the server and doesn\u2019t scale the same way as the preplanned workflow does).<\/p>\n Scheduled Update deltas can co-exist alongside preplanned replicas and Runtime will intelligently make your local data current by seeing whether it\u2019s better to download the latest replica, or to download a sequence of deltas.<\/p>\n In adding support for scheduled updates, you\u2019ll also get access to an offline geodatabase\u2019s generation ID, and Runtime will now cleanly close Mobile Map Packages.<\/p>\n Speaking of MMPKs, we\u2019ve included memory usage and performance improvements (particularly with symbology) when parsing them.<\/p>\n Over 300 customers have been working with our Augmented Reality beta program over the past year or so, and we’re bringing those capabilities out of beta. With Update 6 ArcGIS Runtime is AR enabled for iOS and Android devices.<\/p>\n It was clear that delivering a truly exceptional AR experience across a range of use cases would require customization, configuration, and calibration. To support that, we’ve provided rich open source Toolkit components to help build tabletop and world-scale AR experiences on top of the base components the SDKs expose.\u00a0 See our follow-up blog post on how to power mobile augmented reality experiences with ArcGIS Runtime!<\/a><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":" Military Symbology is broad, flexible, and information rich. Driven by a specific set of mission-critical requirements, the symbology must be highly readable and immediately recognizable while covering a range of situations, both expected and unexpected. The stakes for misreading a map very often could not be higher.<\/p>\n With Update 6 we\u2019re introducing improved support for Military Symbology. This support is being built into the platform, not just the Runtime, and pivots off use of a Dictionary Renderer to access symbols in a style file, powered by Arcade.<\/p>\n While this supports Defense customers\u2019 needs, it also exposes complex attribute driven rendering for use in any kind of app. For example, with a little Arcade customization you could display restaurants, showing not only their locations and types, but also ratings, whether the restaurant is currently open, and whether it\u2019s kid-friendly, etc. all directly symbolized on the map.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":589082,"id":589082,"title":"Restaurant Dictionary Renderer","filename":"Restaurant-Dictionary-Renderer.png","filesize":11790,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Restaurant-Dictionary-Renderer.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/developers\/announcements\/welcome-to-arcgis-runtime-100-6\/restaurant-dictionary-renderer","alt":"Dictionary Symbol for Restaurant","author":"3811","description":"","caption":"Use Arcade to define dictionary driven complex symbology using multiple feature attributes.","name":"restaurant-dictionary-renderer","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":582032,"date":"2019-08-21 19:48:37","modified":"2019-08-21 19:50:33","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":327,"height":244,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Restaurant-Dictionary-Renderer-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Restaurant-Dictionary-Renderer.png","medium-width":327,"medium-height":244,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Restaurant-Dictionary-Renderer.png","medium_large-width":327,"medium_large-height":244,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Restaurant-Dictionary-Renderer.png","large-width":327,"large-height":244,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Restaurant-Dictionary-Renderer.png","1536x1536-width":327,"1536x1536-height":244,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Restaurant-Dictionary-Renderer.png","2048x2048-width":327,"2048x2048-height":244,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Restaurant-Dictionary-Renderer.png","card_image-width":327,"card_image-height":244,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Restaurant-Dictionary-Renderer.png","wide_image-width":327,"wide_image-height":244}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":" Update<\/em>: For more details about working with style files and dictionary renderers, check out this blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n Many OGC services use parameter based authorization schemes for access, and we now support using these authorization keys (and for that matter any custom parameters) for WFS, WMS, and WMTS layers.<\/p>\n Rounding out our KML story, Update 6 adds creation and editing capabilities. Now you can modify a KML file or author one from scratch, save it, and share it with others directly from your Runtime app.\u00a0 Note, creating and editing a KML file in a production app requires licensing Runtime at the Standard level.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":" In addition to all of the above, we\u2019re adding some capabilities that are driven by the ArcGIS platform as a whole. Highlights include:<\/p>\n We\u2019ve also fixed multiple bugs and made some great improvements in performance and memory usage, in particular with dictionary renderers, Arcade, and working with mobile map packages. Please see the specific release notes for\u00a0Android<\/a>,\u00a0Qt<\/a>,\u00a0.NET<\/a>,\u00a0Java<\/a>, and iOS<\/a>\u00a0for more details.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re looking for the Local Server 100.6 installer, it’s now out. See this blog post<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a lot of really important and foundational new technology in Update 6, much of which is just the start of what we have planned. We can\u2019t wait to see what you build with it!<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":" To get 100.6, go to the ArcGIS for Developers<\/a> web site, browse the ArcGIS Runtime SDK page of your choice and download the SDK.\u00a0 You can also reference through NuGet<\/a>, Gradle<\/a>, or CocoaPods<\/a>. If you’re new to developing with ArcGIS Runtime and don’t have an ArcGIS Developer subscription, simply sign up<\/a> for a free account and you’ll be able to access everything you need to develop your app.<\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":3811,"user_firstname":"Nicholas","user_lastname":"Furness","nickname":"Nicholas Furness","user_nicename":"nfurness","display_name":"Nick Furness","user_email":"NFurness@esri.com","user_url":"http:\/\/developers.arcgis.com","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:15:26","user_description":"Nick Furness is a Product Manager for the ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps, and ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Game Engines, specializing in Swift and iOS. He's spent over 25 years working in the GIS space building projects ranging from small mom-and-pop solutions all the way up to enterprise utility and national government deployments. Nick presents at various Esri Developer Summits, the User Conference, and many other events, almost always talking about something to do with the Native Maps SDKs (although you might find the odd bit of JavaScript thrown in there).","user_avatar":"Annotation<\/h3>\n
Navigation<\/h3>\n
Offline<\/h3>\n
AR<\/h3>\n
Defense & Public Safety<\/h2>\n
Arcade based Styles<\/h3>\n
OGC<\/h3>\n
Platform support<\/h2>\n
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Download and get started<\/h2>\n
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