How to build an AR android application in 2019

Paul Sun
1 min readSep 28, 2019

--

This AR-Shibuya project is based off the ARCore documentation

.obj file, Android Studio, Sceneform Plugin

Android imports 3D models for AR by converting .obj file into .sfb files using the sceneform plugin.

After installing the sceneform plugin, the next step to uploading a custom AR model into Android is to generate an .sfb file by right clicking on the .obj asset, and Import Sceneform Asset.

replace the second parameter of .setSource with Uri.parse()

In the ModelRenderable.builder() replace the default ‘R.raw.andy’ entry with Uri.parse(“model_file.sfb”)

HelloSceneFormActivity.java

AR-Shibuya is an on going project to bring a display of 3D art to the streets of Tokyo

artist: Takayuki Matsumine

--

--