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.

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eBook Nov 2013 134 pages 1st Edition

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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

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Augmented 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.

Who is this book for?

Augmented 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.

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

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Mauro Figueiredo Jan 19, 2014

This is a great introductory book for those that want to build augmented reality applications for android mobile systems. It is well written describing step by step the installation and integration of the required SDKs and developer tools so that even less experienced programmers can easily follow.Chapter 1 introduces the main concepts of augmented reality and describes the installation of the required SDKs and tools. What I like from chapters 2 and 3 is that it clearly explains the programming of the mobile camera along with the 3D graphics rendering (including basic concepts from computer graphics) required for every AR application.Following chapters clearly shows how to develop the basic building blocks for an AR browser supported by both global tracking and computer vision-based AR .I would recommend this book for bachelors or master degrees students that want to quickly develop an augmented reality app.

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SuJo Jan 16, 2014

Augmented Reality Android Application DevelopmentStarting off the book jumps into having you install SDKs and developer tools. The author guides you all through the settings and teaches you what to do in order to get up and running. I enjoy when programming books start with some theory behind the actual concepts the book starts off with this and sets the pace. I also want to mention that the book is very well organized each chapter leads into the next chapter and branches off with the previous concepts that you were learning. I like how the author organized the code blocks using a different font however it would've been nice if there was a light gray background behind them but I won't deduct points for that.Chapters 1 through 3 seemed to just be basic information along with getting you up and running it was very easy-to-follow along and the camera perspectives were explained very clearly, and I appreciated the images in the book that verified the output. Chapter 4 is when things start to ramp up you begin with a lot of math exercises and you set up for tracking and that's when you get into the really fun stuff, ray picking was explained fairly well.All in all this book was a great starter guide for setting up all the SDKs required for 3D rendering and setting up virtual environments. [...] Check it out, it's well worth it!

Peter Backx Jan 28, 2014

This book is a short and very practical introduction to Augmented Reality on Android. It starts with the very basic (how to use the camera, how to do 3D), but by the end of the book you've got a fully functioning app.The book can be used be beginner's to Android development, but a little experience will help in getting through some of the tougher parts (like the native development)The only downside of the book: it's a very short book. By the time you've finished the book, you'll be so eager to learn more that you wish this book was twice or thrice it's actual length.

Kiyoshi Kiyokawa Jan 21, 2014

This book covers a whole set of topics to quickly start developing augmented reality applications on an Android device. It is very well organized and written. What I like about this book is that the authors are well known AR researchers in the community, and they provide reliable and easy-to-understand descriptions not only on the software development aspects but also on more general aspects of AR throughout the chapters. In most of chapters, general concepts and tips are given (e.g. cameras and coordinate systems) first then the real programming examples are explained. As far as you follow the instructions step by step, you will never get lost and will succeed in trying the examples at your hand. In this sense, this book will be perfect for students and self learning.This book is very self-contained in both positive and negative meanings. After running several demonstrations, readers may be at a loss as to what to do next. I would have liked to see more advanced topics and at least gateways to such topics. Chapter 7 provides some advanced topics, but they are mostly still within the software framework they introduced. It may have been more interesting if the book also introduces some state of the art research issues to read such as image based outdoor tracking and 3D reconstruction. Considering the target readers and the page count, I can understand they omit them though.All in all, this is an excellent book as a starter. I would use it for my class to teach.

Shane Jan 20, 2014

This is a good high level over view of Augmented Reality and Android. The AR and Android development are very rich topics. I really appreciated the links and the required software sections. This is one of the more difficult parts of starting to develop software: just getting started. There were a cases where the authors made trade-offs. One of the key areas was in the emulation of an android platform. The authors neglected the vast differences between CPUs and chipsets. These play a vital role in day-to-day development. The prepackaged code worked on a few emulation environments but failed on others. If you own a android device this is a easy book to work through but if you are looking to deploy an end product on numerous devices then this will only be a guide for AR based theory (at a very high level).

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.

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