Augmented Reality for Android Application Development
As an Android developer, including Augmented Reality (AR) in your mobile apps could be a profitable new string to your bow. This tutorial takes you through every aspect of AR for Android with lots of hands-on exercises.
Published on 13. January 2025
134 pages
978-1-78216-856-0 (ISBN)
Description
As an Android developer, including Augmented Reality (AR) in your mobile apps could be a profitable new string to your bow. This tutorial takes you through every aspect of AR for Android with lots of hands-on exercises.
Key Features
Understand the main concepts and architectural components of an AR application
Step-by-step learning through hands-on programming combined with a background of important mathematical concepts
Efficiently and robustly implement some of the main functional AR aspects
Book DescriptionAugmented Reality offers the magical effect of blending the physical world with the virtual world, which brings applications from your screen into your hands. AR redefines advertising and gaming, as well as education. It will soon become a technology that will have to be mastered as a necessity by mobile application developers. Augmented Reality for Android Application Development enables you to implement sensor-based and computer vision-based AR applications on Android devices. You will learn about the theoretical foundations and practical details of implemented AR applications, and you will be provided with hands-on examples that will enable you to quickly develop and deploy novel AR applications on your own. Augmented Reality for Android Application Development will help you learn the basics of developing mobile AR browsers, how to integrate and animate 3D objects easily with the JMonkeyEngine, how to unleash the power of computer vision-based AR using the Vuforia AR SDK, and will teach you about popular interaction metaphors. You will get comprehensive knowledge of how to implement a wide variety of AR apps using hands-on examples. This book will make you aware of how to use the AR engine, Android layout, and overlays, and how to use ARToolkit. Finally, you will be able to apply this knowledge to make a stunning AR application.What you will learn
Decide which AR approach is right for you: sensor-based or computer vision-based
Get camera-access for Android
Overlay 3D objects on physical images with the JMonkeyEngine
Learn how to use the GPS sensor to locate yourself in the world
Master orientation sensors
Learn the building blocks of implementing Augmented Reality Browsers
Understand the power of the Vuforia SDK for computer vision-based AR
Enable user interaction with Augmented Objects
Who this book is forAugmented Reality for Android Application Development is for Android mobile application developers who are familiar with Android Development Tools and deployment, JMonkeyEngine, and the Vuforia SDK.
Key Features
Understand the main concepts and architectural components of an AR application
Step-by-step learning through hands-on programming combined with a background of important mathematical concepts
Efficiently and robustly implement some of the main functional AR aspects
Book DescriptionAugmented Reality offers the magical effect of blending the physical world with the virtual world, which brings applications from your screen into your hands. AR redefines advertising and gaming, as well as education. It will soon become a technology that will have to be mastered as a necessity by mobile application developers. Augmented Reality for Android Application Development enables you to implement sensor-based and computer vision-based AR applications on Android devices. You will learn about the theoretical foundations and practical details of implemented AR applications, and you will be provided with hands-on examples that will enable you to quickly develop and deploy novel AR applications on your own. Augmented Reality for Android Application Development will help you learn the basics of developing mobile AR browsers, how to integrate and animate 3D objects easily with the JMonkeyEngine, how to unleash the power of computer vision-based AR using the Vuforia AR SDK, and will teach you about popular interaction metaphors. You will get comprehensive knowledge of how to implement a wide variety of AR apps using hands-on examples. This book will make you aware of how to use the AR engine, Android layout, and overlays, and how to use ARToolkit. Finally, you will be able to apply this knowledge to make a stunning AR application.What you will learn
Decide which AR approach is right for you: sensor-based or computer vision-based
Get camera-access for Android
Overlay 3D objects on physical images with the JMonkeyEngine
Learn how to use the GPS sensor to locate yourself in the world
Master orientation sensors
Learn the building blocks of implementing Augmented Reality Browsers
Understand the power of the Vuforia SDK for computer vision-based AR
Enable user interaction with Augmented Objects
Who this book is forAugmented Reality for Android Application Development is for Android mobile application developers who are familiar with Android Development Tools and deployment, JMonkeyEngine, and the Vuforia SDK.
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
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US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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Digital original
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2,38 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78216-856-0 (9781782168560)
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Jens Grubert is a researcher at the Graz University of Technology. He has received his Bakkalaureus (2008) and Dipl.-Ing. with distinction (2009) at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany. As a research manager at Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF, Germany, he conducted evaluations of industrial Augmented Reality systems until August 2010. He has been involved in several academic and industrial projects over the past years and is the author of more than 20 international publications. His current research interests include mobile interfaces for situated media and user evaluations for consumer-oriented Augmented Reality interfaces in public spaces. He has over four years of experience in developing mobile Augmented Reality applications. He initiated the development of a natural feature tracking system that is now commercially used for creating Augmented Reality campaigns. Furthermore, he is teaching university courses about Distributed Systems, Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality. Website: www.jensgrubert.com.
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