Anchor

public class Anchor

Describes a fixed location and orientation in the real world. To stay at a fixed location in physical space, the numerical description of this position will update as ARCore's understanding of the space improves.

Use getPose() to get the current numerical location of this anchor. This location may change any time Session.update() is called, but will never spontaneously change.

mathematically:
point_world = anchor.getPose().transformPoint(point_local);
point_world = anchor.getPose().toMatrix() * point_local;

anchor.getPose().toMatrix(...) provides a matrix appropriate for composing with the view and projection matrices when rendering an object at this anchor's location.

Anchors are hashable and may for example be used as keys in HashMaps.

Anchors incur ongoing processing overhead within ARCore. To release unneeded anchors use detach().

Nested Classes

enum Anchor.CloudAnchorState Result of a Cloud Anchor hosting or resolving operation. 
enum Anchor.RooftopAnchorState Describes the Rooftop anchor state of asynchronous operation launched by Earth.resolveAnchorOnRooftopAsync(double, double, double, float, float, float, float, BiConsumer). 
enum Anchor.TerrainAnchorState Describes the result of a Terrain anchor operation. 

Public Methods

void
detach()
Detaches this Anchor from its Trackable removes it from the Session.
boolean
equals(Object obj)
Indicates whether some other object is an Anchor referencing the same logical anchor as this one.
String
getCloudAnchorId()
This method is deprecated. For cloud anchors hosted by the async method Session.hostCloudAnchorAsync(Anchor, int, BiConsumer), the result Cloud Anchor ID can be obtained from the corresponding callback or Future object. This method will always return the empty string for anchors created through async methods.
Anchor.CloudAnchorState
getCloudAnchorState()
This method is deprecated. For Cloud Anchor operations created by the async Cloud Anchor methods, the result state can be obtained from the corresponding callback or Future object. This method will always return Anchor.CloudAnchorState.NONE for anchors created through async methods.
Pose
getPose()
Returns the pose of the anchor in the world coordinate space.
Anchor.TerrainAnchorState
getTerrainAnchorState()
This method is deprecated. For resolve operations created by the async method Earth.resolveAnchorOnTerrainAsync(double, double, double, float, float, float, float, BiConsumer), the result state can be obtained for the callback or future object.
TrackingState
getTrackingState()
Returns the current state of the pose of this anchor.
int
hashCode()
Returns a hash code value for the object.

Inherited Methods

Public Methods

detach

public void detach()

Detaches this Anchor from its Trackable removes it from the Session. After calling, getTrackingState() will return TrackingState.STOPPED and ARCore will no longer update this Anchor's pose or return it from Session.getAllAnchors().

equals

public boolean equals(
  Object obj
)

Indicates whether some other object is an Anchor referencing the same logical anchor as this one.

Details
Parameters
obj the reference object with which to compare.
Returns true if this object is the same as the obj argument; false otherwise.
See Also

getCloudAnchorId

public String getCloudAnchorId()

This method was deprecated.
For cloud anchors hosted by the async method Session.hostCloudAnchorAsync(Anchor, int, BiConsumer), the result Cloud Anchor ID can be obtained from the corresponding callback or Future object. This method will always return the empty string for anchors created through async methods.

Gets the current cloud anchor ID for this anchor. Returns an empty string if getCloudAnchorState() returns Anchor.CloudAnchorState.TASK_IN_PROGRESS or Anchor.CloudAnchorState.NONE.

getCloudAnchorState

public Anchor.CloudAnchorState getCloudAnchorState()

This method was deprecated.
For Cloud Anchor operations created by the async Cloud Anchor methods, the result state can be obtained from the corresponding callback or Future object. This method will always return Anchor.CloudAnchorState.NONE for anchors created through async methods.

Gets the current Cloud Anchor state of this anchor.

getPose

public Pose getPose()

Returns the pose of the anchor in the world coordinate space. This pose may change each time Session.update() is called. This pose should only be used for rendering if getTrackingState() returns TrackingState.TRACKING.

getTerrainAnchorState

public Anchor.TerrainAnchorState getTerrainAnchorState()

This method was deprecated.
For resolve operations created by the async method Earth.resolveAnchorOnTerrainAsync(double, double, double, float, float, float, float, BiConsumer), the result state can be obtained for the callback or future object.

Gets the current Terrain anchor state of this anchor. This state is guaranteed not to change until Session.update() is called. For Anchors that are not Terrain anchors, this function returns Anchor.TerrainAnchorState.NONE. See Anchor.TerrainAnchorState for the possible Terrain anchor states.

getTrackingState

public TrackingState getTrackingState()

Returns the current state of the pose of this anchor. If this state is anything other than TrackingState.TRACKING the pose should not be considered useful.

Note: Starting in ARCore 1.12, changing the active camera config using Session.setCameraConfig(CameraConfig) may cause the tracking state on certain devices to become permanently PAUSED. For consistent behavior across all supported devices, release any previously created anchors when setting a new camera config.

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Returns a hash code value for the object. This method is supported for the benefit of hash tables such as those provided by HashMap.

Details
Returns a hash code value for this object.
See Also