World Wind Android
World Wind Android is a 3D virtual globe API for Android. You can use it to provide a geographic context, complete with terrain, for visualizing geographic or geo-located information. World Wind Android provides high-resolution terrain and imagery, retrieved from remote servers automatically as needed. You can also provide your own terrain and imagery. World Wind Android additionally provides a rich collection of shapes that you can use to represent information on the globe or in space.
Important Sites
- World Wind Examples runs on devices with Android 4.4 (KitKat) and newer
- World Wind Library provides the World Wind Library as an Android Archive (AAR)
- API Docs gives class level details for developers
- JIRA provides requirement and issue tracking
- World Wind Forum provides help from the World Wind community
- Android Studio is used for World Wind Android development
Release 0.1.0, March 30, 2016
World Wind Android's initial prototype release. This release establishes the baseline for World Wind Android development. It provides a basic navigable 3D globe capable of displaying imagery from OGC Web Map Service (WMS) layers, has support for displaying local and remote images on the globe, and provides a rich interface for manipulating the virtual camera.
- World Wind Examples 0.1.0 - Example App for 0.1.0; runs on Android 4.4 and newer
- World Wind Library 0.1.0 - Android Archive (AAR) for 0.1.0
- API Docs 0.1.0 - Developer documentation for 0.1.0
- JIRA 0.1.0 - Detailed release notes for 0.1.0
Release Notes
Requirement
Task
- WWA-57 - Android project structure
- WWA-59 - Rendering infrastructure
- WWA-60 - Vector and geographic primitives
- WWA-61 - Navigation gesture detectors
- WWA-62 - WorldWindow
- WWA-63 - Global tessellation
- WWA-64 - Units tests for version 0.1.0
- WWA-65 - Stub classes for version 0.1.0
- WWA-66 - Logging infrastructure