Build an AR App using JPCT-AE & Vuforia 7 on Android under 10 minutes!
The rise of Augmented Reality apps are gaining momentum in all fields these days and it’s good to have some experience building them. And also, it’s fun to try it too!
Prerequisites
Although you can easily follow this tutorial without much programming experience, it would be better to know Java in order to take this app further. Also, it’s good to have some Android Development experience.
Required Software
- Android Studio with Android SDK (Download it here)
Step 1 : Download the Vuforia SDK and Samples
The first thing we want to do is to download the Vuforia SDK and samples from the Vuforia Developer Console from the following links :
SDK: https://developer.vuforia.com/downloads/sdk
Samples: https://developer.vuforia.com/downloads/samples
At the time of writing this, the files were named, “vuforia-sdk-android-7–1–31.zip” (SDK), “vuforia-samples-core-android-7–1–31.zip” (Samples).
You may need to register with the Vuforia Developer Console, to download these files.
Step 2: Download JPCT-AE
Next, we need to download the Java library JPCT-AE for Android for parsing the 3D models we may want to show over the image targets that we detect using Vuforia.
