Configure Start Screen Content
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Introduction
The Dynamic Configurable start screen feature allows the UBIK Service engineer to tailor the buttons on the start screen according to the needs of the customer.
Setup
- The first step is to configure the start screen data using an xml in order for UBIK® to recognize the different tabs and buttons. The xml file should be placed in a subfolder under the "UBIK" folder on the device's SD card.
- After the folder is configured, the next step is to validate the XML configuration file against the schema using an online validator. A solution can be found at Online XML Schema Validator. The schema used to validate against will be found inside the UBIK Folder and is named ConfigurableStartScreenSchema.
The following xml shows an example configuration (also can be downloaded as an xml file):
<Tab caption="Content">
<ContentBrowserButton caption="Content Browser" UBIK-UID="2ccd91c0-9cee-42f3-9d1d-be745908457d"/>
<ContentBrowserButton caption="Events" UBIK-UID="31aaa5c9-85dd-4243-9cf8-89d712d32405" iconPath="/sdcard/Augmensys/events.png"/>
</Tab>
<Tab caption="AR1">
<MapsButton/>
<POIViewButton caption="AR View"/>
<CustomIntentButton caption="Map of Linz">
<TargetURI>
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Linz/@48.295065,14.327405,12z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x47739595fa99854d:0x7c53292c577975c4
</TargetURI>
</CustomIntentButton>
<TargetMapsButton caption="Flow Controller 213" UBIK-UID="2ccd91c0-9cee-42f3-9d1d-be745908457d"/>
</Tab>
<Tab caption="AR2">
<IDMarkerScanButton caption="ID Marker Scan"/>
<QRCodeScanButton caption="QR Code Scan"/>
<ConfigurableARButton caption="Configurable AR"/>
<ConfigurableImageMarkerButton caption="Configurable Image Marker"/>
<ARNavigationButton caption="Flow Controller 213" UBIK-UID="2ccd91c0-9cee-42f3-9d1d-be745908457d"/>
<NavigationMapsButton caption="Flow Controller 213" UBIK-UID="2ccd91c0-9cee-42f3-9d1d-be745908457d"/>
</Tab>
</StartScreenConfiguration>
Tab Groups
The user can configure tab groups in the XML, however the allowed number of tabs to configure may vary depending on the screen size of the device. As parameters, the caption is mandatory.
Buttons
Buttons should be placed inside tab elements and can be parameterized. Buttons are configurable in terms of
- Icon
- Caption
- Group/tab
- Action + Parameters if needed
For now, the supported button types are as follows: (The buttons demonstrated in the screenshots are the results of the example XML configuration.)
- Content Browser Button : Opens a content browser for displaying an object or the root if no object/uid is specified.
- Custom Intent Button (using a customized intent URI or target class) : Launches a certain application for the specified Intent.
- Maps Button : Opens UBIK® map.
- Target Maps Button : Opens UBIK® map for a target object.
- ID Marker Scan Button : Starts ID marker scanning.
- QR Scan Button : Starts QR code scanning.
- POI View Button : Opens UBIK® POI view.
- Configurable AR Button : Opens the markerless view.
- Configurable Image Marker Button : Opens the ID marker 3D view.
- AR Navigation POI View Button : Opens UBIK® POI view with the AR navigation support.
- AR Navigation Maps Button : Starts navigating to the specified object.
Additionally, Button parameter configurations should maintain the following guidelines:
- When either the caption parameter or the icon parameter is not explicitly customized in the xml file, default caption and icons, specific to each button, are used.
- While configuring the custom intent button, either target class or target URI should be specified, but not both and not neither. The later two cases will result in an error.
- The configuration of the UID parameter is obligatory for AR Navigation POI View Button, AR Navigation Maps View Button, RAG Navigation Maps View Button and Demo Navigation Maps View Button.
Results
The result is that the tabs and buttons configured in the XML file will be visible and open the right activity once they are clicked.
