Pins field no appears in the estimote indoor SDK Location Entity

Indoor Location
1

Hi there.
i try develop a dynamic function with the pins name field but, i was surprised after i realized that this field no appears in the estimote indoor location SDK Location entity

data class Location(
        /** Name of the location */
        val name: String = "",
        /** Location unique identifier */
        val identifier: String = "",
        /** If this location is accessible publicly, or only by the given Estimote Cloud account */
        val public: Boolean = true,
        /** Name of location owner */
        val owner: String = "",
        /** Location global orientation. If not supplied, the default value is `0.0` */
        val orientation: Double = 0.0,
        /** List containing location wall objects (with coordinates and stuff) */
        val walls: List<LocationWall> = emptyList(),
        /** List containing location beacon objects (with coordinates and stuff) */
        val beacons: List<LocationBeacon> = emptyList(),
        /** List containing location linear objects - doors, windows, etc. */
        val linearObjects: List<LocationLinearObject> = emptyList()
)

the strange thing is that field appears in the add indoor location web service,

{
    "name": "Example location",
    "public": false,
    "orientation": 23.5,
    "walls": [
        {
            "x1": 0,
            "y1": 0,
            "x2": 0,
            "y2": 5,
            "orientation": 90
        },
        {
            "x1": 0,
            "y1": 5,
            "x2": 7,
            "y2": 5,
            "orientation": 180
        },
        {
            "x1": 7,
            "y1": 5,
            "x2": 9,
            "y2": -2,
            "orientation": 254.054604099077
        },
        {
            "x1": 9,
            "y1": -2,
            "x2": 4,
            "y2": 0,
            "orientation": 21.8014094863518
        },
        {
            "x1": 4,
            "y1": 0,
            "x2": 0,
            "y2": 0,
            "orientation": 0
        }
    ],
    "beacons": [
        {
            "beacon": {
                "mac": "c32e9dab6b87"
            },
            "position": {
                "x": 5,
                "y": 2,
                "orientation": 0
            }
        },
        {
            "beacon": {
                "mac": "ce0a257b725f"
            },
            "position": {
                "x": 7.54944225579476,
                "y": 3.07695210471835,
                "orientation": 254.054604099077
            }
        },
        {
            "beacon": {
                "mac": "7c72a730bc03ef3b8be89d4f9f8d7d23"
            },
            "position": {
                "x": 3,
                "y": 5,
                "orientation": 180
            }
        },
        {
            "beacon": {
                "mac": "5cc24a9872002ee567b4156a7c57b005"
            },
            "position": {
                "x": 0,
                "y": 2.5,
                "orientation": 90
            }
        }
    ],
    "linear_objects": [
        {
            "x1": 1,
            "y1": 0,
            "x2": 3,
            "y2": 0,
            "orientation": 0,
            "type": 1
        },
        {
            "x1": 0,
            "y1": 1,
            "x2": 0,
            "y2": 2,
            "orientation": 90,
            "type": 0
        }
    ],
    "pins": [
        {
            "x": 1,
            "y": 0,
            "orientation": 0,
            "name": "Downhill bike",
            "type": "bike"
        },
        {
            "x": 1,
            "y": -1,
            "orientation": 100,
            "name": "My chair",
            "type": "furniture"
        }
    ]
}

how can implement this pins name field in my app? to be able developed dynamics functions.
help me please
best regard.

2

Pins were originally designed for our iOS Indoor SDK w/ the AR mode, and they haven’t made it to the Android SDK.

Since you’ve already noticed that pins are returned via the Cloud API, I think the best workaround I could suggest is to hit that API in your Android app, and get the pins out of the response.

3

ok
how i can hit the cloud API? for access the pins field, is that i need develop a voice command like this

tts = TextToSpeech(this, this)
val arrayofString = arrayOf("Haz seleccionado "+location.name+" conócela por dentro")
for (i in arrayofString) {
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
        tts!!.speak(i, TextToSpeech.QUEUE_FLUSH, null, null)
    } else {
        val hash = HashMap<String, String>()
        hash.put(TextToSpeech.Engine.KEY_PARAM_STREAM,
                AudioManager.STREAM_NOTIFICATION.toString())
        tts!!.speak(i, TextToSpeech.QUEUE_FLUSH, hash)
    }

but using the pins name field to notify the blind pleople in this where located beacuse my app is focused mainly in this people.
Help me please.
Best regard.

4

You need to make an HTTP request to this endpoint:

https://cloud.estimote.com/docs/#api-IndoorGroup-GetIndoorLocation

… and parse the JSON response.

For how to make an HTTP request:
https://developer.android.com/training/volley

Alternatively, OkHttp is another popular library for making HTTP requests:
http://square.github.io/okhttp/

For parsing the JSON response, probably best to use the built-in JSONObject class. There’s quite a few tutorials out there, so just pick the one that looks best to you (:

Alternatively, just hard-code the pins into your app for now, for some quick results/prototyping. And later on, you could store the pins in your own backend, e.g., with Firebase.