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Anychart Android Java export chart as SVG or PNG in specific local folder

I was trying to create and save an image with AnyChart for an android application. This image is created without being rendered since the idea is to use the data from a vector to generate the image and save it on the phone's memory. I am using Java for programming the android application.
I have been testing the ".saveAsPng()" and ".saveAsSVG()" functions from the Anychart Library but there has been no success... I don't receive an error but I don't get the image either... and I don't know exactly how to proceed...
I tried to follow this guideline (https://docs.anychart.com/Common_Settings/Server-Side_Rendering) but as I said, I haven't succeeded in generating and saving the file.
This is the code that I have been using:
private class CustomDataEntry2 extends ValueDataEntry {
CustomDataEntry2(double x, Number value) {
super(x, value);
}
}
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List<DataEntry> dataLateral = new ArrayList<>();
for (int p=0; p<DataX.size();p++) {
dataLateral.add(new CustomDataEntry2(DataY.get(p), DataX.get(p)));
}
AnyChartView anyChartViewLateral = new com.anychart.AnyChartView(this);
APIlib.getInstance().setActiveAnyChartView(anyChartViewLateral);
anyChartViewLateral.setProgressBar(new ProgressBar(this));
Polar polarLateralImage = AnyChart.polar();
polarLateralImage.startAngle(90);
Linear xScaleLateral = Linear.instantiate();
xScaleLateral.minimum(-180).maximum(180);
xScaleLateral.ticks().interval(90);
polarLateralImage.xScale(xScaleLateral);
Line polarSeriesLine = polarLateralImage.line(dataLateral);
polarSeriesLine.closed(false).markers(true);
polarSeriesLine.markers().size(3);
polarLateralImage.autoRedraw(true);
anyChartViewLateral.setChart(polarLateralImage);
polarLateralImage.saveAsPng(400,400,0.3,"testImage.png");
Could anyone tell me what am I missing or what amb I doing wrong? I know I might be asking too much, but if it were possible, I would be happy if someone could provide a code snippet that works.
Thank you very much!

Unfortunately, the current version of the AnyChart Android native library doesn't support exporting features, it was no implemented yet.

How to properly render external texture in Sceneform 1.16.0?

Previously there was a
nice article for rendering external texture
None of the code will work with Sceneform 1.16.0, as there are no .sfb, .sfm or .sfa formats.
New material seems to be in .matc format which is not human readable. How to create or modify a material in this version of Sceneform?
Using sceneform_camera_material.matc its possible to render a camera to background of Sceneform, but its very pixelated, irrespective of whatever camera preview resolution chosen. GLTF models looks great when loaded, issue is specific to external texture.
Is this some issue related to Linear filtering of textures or something to do with material settings of Google Filament?

If you use Sceneform 1.16 and want to create sceneform.rendering.Material,
(1)
You need to create your own matc file with Filmaent matc tool. You can download filament tool at https://github.com/google/filament/releases.
(2)
After you create your own matc file, put it in android raw directory, and call
com.google.ar.sceneform.rendering.Material.builder()
.setSource(context, R.raw.YOUR_MATC_FILE)
.build()
.thenAccept { material->
//Do something with created sceneform's Material
}
.exceptionally { throwable: Throwable? ->
}

JasperReports export to Excel uses only last set background color

Im pretty pretty new to Dynamic-Jasper, but due to work i had to add a new feature to our already implemented solution.
My Problem
The Goal is to add a Column to a report that consists only out of a background-color based on some Information. I managed to do that, but while testing I stumbled upon a Problem. While all my Columns in the html and pdf view had the right color, the Excel one only colored the fields in the last Color.
While debugging i noticed, that the same colored Fields had the same templateId, but while all Views run through mostly the same Code the Excel one showed different behavior and had the same ID in all fields.
My Code where I manipulate the template
for(JRPrintElement elemt : jasperPrint.getPages().get(0).getElements()) {
if(elemt instanceof JRTemplatePrintText) {
JRTemplatePrintText text = (JRTemplatePrintText) elemt;
(...)
if (text.getFullText().startsWith("COLOR_IDENTIFIER")) {
String marker = text.getFullText().substring(text.getFullText().indexOf('#') + 1);
text.setText("ID = " + ((JRTemplatePrintText) elemt).getTemplate().getId());
int rgb = TypeConverter.string2int(Integer.parseInt(marker, 16) + "", 0);
((JRTemplatePrintText) elemt).getTemplate().setBackcolor(new Color(rgb));
}
}
}
The html view
The Excel view
Temporary Conclusion
The same styles uses the same Objects in the background and the JR-Excel export messes something up by assigning the same Object to all the Fields that I manipulated there. If anyone knows of a misstake by me or potential Solutions to change something different to result the same thing please let me know.
Something different I tried earlier, was trying to set the field in an evaluate Method that was called by Jasper. In that method we assign the textvalue of each field. It contained a map with JRFillFields, but unfortunatelly the Map-Implementation denied access to them and just retuned the Value of those. The map was provided by dj and couldn't be switched with a different one.
Edit
We are using JasperReports 6.7.1

I found a Solution, where I replaced each template with a new one that was supposed to look exactly alike. That way every Field has its own ID guaranteed and its not up to chance, how JasperReports handles its Data internaly.
JRTemplateElement custom =
new JRTemplateText(((JRTemplatePrintText) elemt).getTemplate().getOrigin(),
((JRTemplatePrintText) elemt).getTemplate().getDefaultStyleProvider());
custom.setBackcolor(new Color(rgb));
custom.setStyle(((JRTemplatePrintText) elemt).getTemplate().getStyle());
((JRTemplatePrintText) elemt).setTemplate(custom);

How to load a Google maps static map using Picasso?

In my Android app I use Picasso to load images. This normally works perfectly well.
Today I tried loading a static image from the google maps api, but this doesn't seem to work. When I open the example link as provided on their info page, I get to see the static map image perfectly well. When I load it in my Android app using the line below, I get nothing at all.
Picasso.with(getContext()).load("http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=Brooklyn+Bridge,New+York,NY&zoom=13&size=370x250&maptype=roadmap%20&markers=color:blue|label:S|40.702147,-74.015794&markers=color:green|label:G|40.711614,-74.012318%20&markers=color:red|color:red|label:C|40.718217,-73.998284&sensor=false").into(mapView);
I also tried to download the image and uploading it to my personal webspace, from which it loads perfectly well, but somehow, it doesn't seem to load directly from the direct google API url.
Does anybody know why this is so, and how I can solve it?

The only programmatic point-of-failure that comes to mind is in parsing the URI. Looking at the current Picasso code (https://github.com/square/picasso/blob/master/picasso/src/main/java/com/squareup/picasso/Picasso.java) I see the following:
public RequestCreator load(String path) {
if (path == null) {
return new RequestCreator(this, null, 0);
}
if (path.trim().length() == 0) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Path must not be empty.");
}
return load(Uri.parse(path));
}
So I'd first debug
Uri.parse("http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=Brooklyn+Bridge,New+York,NY&zoom=13&size=370x250&maptype=roadmap%20&markers=color:blue|label:S|40.702147,-74.015794&markers=color:green|label:G|40.711614,-74.012318%20&markers=color:red|color:red|label:C|40.718217,-73.998284&sensor=false")
and see what that Object looks like. Does it drop or confuse any of your parameters?
If that doesn't lead you anwhere, try downloading the file manually using a HttpClient [or similar]. Then at least you can fully debug the request/response.
Also, I know Google maps has some limits -- are you sure you haven't reached them?

replace http with https
replace | with %7C
add api key

The .loadMap() function has many declared variables. This is the heart of the whole process.
So what is required for the static maps API to give us an image is that we make an http request with a given url, for which an image response (URL) is received. Let us run through the meaning and utility of these variables. Yes, all of them have a completely different meaning!
The mapUrlInitial variable is always the same while making an API call. It has a query of center ( ?center ) which specifies that we want the location to be centered in the map.
The mapUrlProperties variable contains a string where you control the actual zooming of the image response you will get, the size ofthe image and the color of the marker which will point out our place.
The mapUrlMapType variable is a string where you can actually determine the marker size you want and the type of the map. We are using a roadtype map in the app.
Finally latLong is a string which concatenates the latitude and the longitude of the place we want to pinpoint!
We then concatenate all of these strings to form a feasible Url. The Url is then loaded as we have seen above, in the Picasso code. One thing we can notice is that an event object is always required for all of this to happen, because we are able to fetch the position details using the event object! Final Code:-
fun loadMap(event: Event): String{
//location handling
val mapUrlInitial = “https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=”
val mapUrlProperties = “&zoom=12&size=1200×390&markers=color:red%7C”
val mapUrlMapType = “&markers=size:mid&maptype=roadmap”
val latLong: String = “” +event.latitude + “,” + event.longitude
return mapUrlInitial + latLong + mapUrlProperties + latLong + mapUrlMapType
}
//load image
Picasso.get()
.load(loadMap(event))
.placeholder(R.drawable.ic_map_black_24dp)
.into(rootView.image_map)

Error with Images

I recently finished the basics of a game that I'm making and I was going to send it to some friends, but whenever they open the .jar it's just a grey window. When I heard that I assumed it was because of the way I got the images (I used a full path: C:\Users\etc). I did some Googling and found a way to get images that seemed more efficient.
private static Image[] mobImages = new Image[1];
public static void loadImages()
{
mobImages[1] = Handler.loadImage("res/EnemyLv1.png");
}
public static Image getMobImages(int index)
{
return mobImages[index];
}
That's what I would like to use. But I did that and changed the rest of my code to support that. And whenever I run a game I get a few errors. Which all point back to
this:
if(getBounds().intersects(tempEnemy.getBounds()))
and so probably the way I'm getting the images too. How could I fix this? And are there better ways to get Images? I've tried a few but they haven't worked.
EDIT: I finally solved all of the errors! :D The only problem is that none of the images appear. Here's my code again. Any more help? That would be fantastic! Thanks everybody for the support so far!

Hard to say whats going wrong in your code. However I recommend you put your image files into a package in the java project (so they will be part of the JAR file) and access them using Class.getResource()/Class.getResourceAsStream(). That avoids multiple pitfalls and keeps everything together.
A sample how to structure your images into the packages:
myproject
images
ImageLocator.class
MyImage1.jpg
MyImage2.jpg
The ImageLocator class then needs to use relative pathes (just the image name + extension) to access to resources.
public class ImageLocator {
public final static String IMAGE_NAME1 = "MyImage1.jpg";
public static Image getImage(final String name) {
URL url = ImageLocator.class.getResource(name);
Image image = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(url);
// ensure the image is loaded
return new ImageIcon(image).getImage();
}
}
This can be done more elegant, but this should get you started. Defining the image names as constants in the ImageLocator class avoids spreading the concrete path throughout the project (as long as the name is correct in ImageLocator, everything else will be checked by the compiler)

Your code still uses "C:\Users\Kids\Desktop\Java Game\Cosmic Defense\res\EnemyLv2.png" in Enemy.java. Are you sure this exists? If you moved the Cosmic Defense folder, it will not.
(You were talking about changing absolute paths to relative paths, so this may be your problem)

Part of the reason could be that your code is pointing to an index of "1" in an array of size 1, meaning that the only available index is in fact "0".
Try mobImages[0] = Handler.loadImage("res/EnemyLv1.png");