I am building a cordova application which fetches JSON data from the server. One piece of information that I receive is the URL of 360 online images. I need to display those images in a photo sphere viewer (for Android). I' ve seen this API (needs cordova google play services plugin) and this library but I haven't managed to successfully use them inside the application. Does anyone know a way of doing that? Can I open that type of image in a native intent? Thanks in advance
Actually I managed to make it work. I am posting the solution, in case someone else finds it useful. Also created a plugin for that which can be found here
creating a simple plugin, I call from cordova the plugin class which downloads using AsyncTask
an image from a URL and onPostExecute
I call the Panorama activity that shows the viewer.
Intent intent = new Intent(cordova.getActivity().getApplicationContext(), PanoramaActivity.class);
intent.putExtra("filepath", file.getAbsolutePath());
cordova.getActivity().startActivity(intent);.
PanoramaActivity.java
import com.google.android.gms.common.ConnectionResult;
import com.google.android.gms.common.api.GoogleApiClient;
import com.google.android.gms.common.api.GoogleApiClient.ConnectionCallbacks;
import com.google.android.gms.common.api.GoogleApiClient.OnConnectionFailedListener;
import com.google.android.gms.common.api.ResultCallback;
import com.google.android.gms.panorama.Panorama;
import com.google.android.gms.panorama.PanoramaApi.PanoramaResult;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import java.io.File;
import android.os.Environment;
public class PanoramaActivity extends Activity implements ConnectionCallbacks, OnConnectionFailedListener{
File file;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
mClient = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(this, this, this)
.addApi(Panorama.API)
.build();
Intent i= getIntent();
Bundle b = i.getExtras();
file = new File(b.getString("filepath"));
@Override
public void onStart() {
super.onStart();
mClient.connect();
}
@Override
public void onConnected(Bundle connectionHint) {
Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(file);//Uri.parse(path);//Uri.fromFile(file);
Panorama.PanoramaApi.loadPanoramaInfo(mClient, uri).setResultCallback(
new ResultCallback<PanoramaResult>() {
@Override
public void onResult(PanoramaResult result) {
if (result.getStatus().isSuccess()) {
Intent viewerIntent = result.getViewerIntent();
Log.i(TAG, "found viewerIntent: " + viewerIntent);
if (viewerIntent != null) {
startActivity(viewerIntent);
}
} else {
Log.e(TAG, "error: " + result);
}
}
});
}
@Override
public void onConnectionSuspended(int cause) {
Log.i(TAG, "connection suspended: " + cause);
}
@Override
public void onConnectionFailed(ConnectionResult status) {
Log.e(TAG, "connection failed: " + status);
}
@Override
public void onStop() {
super.onStop();
mClient.disconnect();
Log.e(TAG, "ON Stop ");
}