ArcGIS for Developers

What can developers do

with Esri technology?

Data Visualization

3D

Routing

Public Information

Traffic Alerts

Native 3D Interactive Analysis

Native Open Source Example Applications

Jupyter Notebook

ArcGIS Platform

Web GIS

Getting Started

ArcGIS Developer Resources

developers.arcgis.com

Building Web Apps

Intro to the ArcGIS API for JavaScript

Guide
API Reference
Many Samples

https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/

Hello World + Examples

Intro to Mapview

JavaScript DevLabs

Python

Intro to the ArcGIS API for Python

Guide
API Reference
Many Samples

https://developers.arcgis.com/python/

Quick Overview of the ArcGIS API for Python

A Pythonic GIS API
- Corresponds to best practices
- Uses standard Python constructs
- Data structures with clean, readable idioms
Easy for a Python programmer to use ArcGIS
Easy for an ArcGIS user to script and automate their GIS

Why Python?

Popularity
Productivity
Interoperability
Solves the “two-language” problem
Scientific Python ecosystem
Community

ArcGIS + Jupyter =

Sample Notebooks

Building Native Apps

ArcGIS Runtime Overview

Architecture

ArcGIS Runtime APIs – public APIs for multiple platforms
- Same capabilities across all APIs
- API surface is tailored to the relevant dev stack

ArcGIS Runtime Overview

Esri’s developer product for native app development
- Incorporate ArcGIS functionality into mobile and desktop applications
- Web service client and local (offline) capabilities
- SDKs for .NET (including Xamarin), Android, iOS, Java, Qt, and macOS

ArcGIS Runtime Overview

High-performance 2D and 3D mapping
Integration with Portal, ArcGIS Online, and ArcGIS Server
- Load, edit, and save web maps
- Use map, image, and feature services
- Geoprocessing for complex custom analyses
Work offline with local data and functionality
- Read local data (.mmpk, .tpk, etc)
- Geocode and Routing
- Geometric operations (buffer, etc)
- Take web maps offline
- Feature service editing and sync

Offline vs Online

Performance vs Availability

Offline Data and Services
- Sideload data/geocoders/network models for highly interactive performance
- No round-trip to a server
- Consider hybrid online + offline if appropriate
Consider Network Availability & Data Qualities:
- Do you need to edit? If not, perhaps side-loading is an option.
- Will many people get the same data? Maybe generate once, sideload often.
- Lots of data changing often? Try to sync when on WiFi.
- How fast is the network in the field?
- How consistent is the network in the field? Patchy?

Perfomance

Work on the device

GeometryEngine
- Manipulate geometry on the device
- Buffer, Union, Difference etc.
- Projection
Offline Data
- Data on the device for highly interactive performance
- No round-trip to a server
Graphics Overlays
- Dynamic Mode (smaller number of moving graphics – good interactive performance)
- Static Mode (large number of graphics – less interactive performance)

ArcGIS Runtime and you

ArcGIS Runtime SDKs

Where to start?

Developers Site - developers.arcgis.com
- It is free with your developer account
Each SDK
- Guides
- Reference Docs
- Forums
GitHub Repos - github.com/esri
- Toolkits
- Samples