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I am trying to load a photo sphere image into an activity and view it like one does in the Gallery. I cannot seem to find any examples or samples of this functionality anywhere on the web.

Documentation PanoramaClient

Thoughts, examples, code sets or suggestions on how this could be accomplished?

Morgan Culbertson
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The announcement posts for the Photo Sphere API details how you would load a PhotoSphere from a URI:

// This listener will be called with information about the given panorama.
OnPanoramaInfoLoadedListener infoLoadedListener =
  new OnPanoramaInfoLoadedListener() {
    @Override
    public void onPanoramaInfoLoaded(ConnectionResult result,
                                 Intent viewerIntent) {
        if (result.isSuccess()) {
            // If the intent is not null, the image can be shown as a
            // panorama.
            if (viewerIntent != null) {
                // Use the given intent to start the panorama viewer.
                startActivity(viewerIntent);
            }
        }

        // If viewerIntent is null, the image is not a viewable panorama.
    }
};

// Create client instance and connect to it.
PanoramaClient client = ...
...

// Once connected to the client, initiate the asynchronous check on whether
// the image is a viewable panorama.
client.loadPanoramaInfo(infoLoadedListener, panoramaUri);

Note that this opens the Photo Sphere in their viewer - there is no built in Photo Sphere viewer that you embed in your Activity.

ianhanniballake
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  • Is there a written sample of this implemented anywhere? – Morgan Culbertson Jul 07 '13 at 01:04
  • @AtomicLock - given that you've already seen the documentation and it's note saying "You should instantiate [the PanoramaClient] in your Activity's `onCreate(Bundle)` method and then call `connect()` in `onStart()` and `disconnect()` in `onStop()`, regardless of the state." what other code are you looking for? This is literally all there is. – ianhanniballake Jul 07 '13 at 01:13
  • So there is no way I could capture/hook-into user click locations on the image because it opens the Android viewer and not something embedded into the activity (locally)? – Morgan Culbertson Jul 07 '13 at 02:16
  • Or is it possible to do this using a webview and capture the users click location within the photo sphere with some JavaScript? Is this possible? – Morgan Culbertson Jul 07 '13 at 02:28
  • @AtomicLock - that's correct. There is no way to get an interactive photo sphere in your `Activity` via the Google provided APIs. You could certainly try to build your own based on the [Photo Sphere metadata specification](https://developers.google.com/photo-sphere/metadata/), but that would not be for the faint of heart. – ianhanniballake Jul 07 '13 at 03:15
  • Possibilities that it would work with an id added to their JavaScript web code? (All web based) https://developers.google.com/photo-sphere/web/ with something like this? http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2006/09/02/click-image-and-get-coordinates-with-javascript/ – Morgan Culbertson Jul 07 '13 at 03:32