Cloud Anchors Developer Guide for Android

Learn about working with Cloud Anchors in your own apps.

If you are new to Cloud Anchors:

Make sure you understand the process used to host and resolve Cloud Anchors.
Read through the quickstart for system requirements, setup, and installation instructions.

Enabling Cloud Anchors in your app

By default, Cloud Anchors are disabled in ARCore. You can enable Cloud Anchor capabilities in your ARCore Session configuration.

Note that the ARCore Cloud Anchors sample app ships with Cloud Anchors enabled for demo purposes only.

Note the following when enabling Cloud Anchors capabilities in your app:

Memory usage will increase when you enable Cloud Anchors.
Battery usage is expected to be higher due to increased network usage and CPU utilization.

The ARCore Cloud Anchor API has the following quotas for request bandwidth:

Quota type	Maximum	Duration	Applies to
Number of anchors	Unlimited	N/A	Project
Anchor host requests	30	minute	IP address and project
Anchor resolve requests	300	minute	IP address and project

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Last updated May 7, 2019.