Hi all!
I'm trying to add cloud anchors to an AR project. Currently, there aren't that many options to do this. I spent some time looking into Google's cloud anchors and quickly found out that you can't serialize them and the system is more targeted to sharing short-lived anchors between users rather than populating anchors around a user from a server, which is more like what I want to do.
So, I turned to Azure Spatial anchors which seem more like what I want to do. However, Microsoft doesn't seem to provide any easy-access nuget or something like that for Xamarin projects. In their FAQ they do say
Q: Does it work with Xamarin?
A: Yes. While we don't provide a Xamarin SDK, we expect developers can use Azure Spatial Anchors in their Xamarin apps by integrating with the Azure Spatial Anchors API.
Although, to be honest, I don't know what they mean by that. What API? I haven't found a DLL or nuget that would provide me with the functions in their demos. I've considered using the AAR in mvnrepository for spatialanchors but that seems easier said than done.
Any of you have any experience on making Spatial anchors work? Did you use an AAR? Did you manage to download the dependencies with gradle? Am I missing an obvious method to integrate the API into my project? Do these methods work cross-platform?
Sidenote: I know about a package called Microsoft.Azure.SpatialAnchors.WinCPP. I believe that that's intended for Unity alone although I'm reading a blogpost about it to see if I can use it in my Android App