Anchors

This page supplements the AR Foundation Anchors manual. The following sections only contain information about APIs where Google's Android XR runtime exhibits platform-specific behavior.

Tip

When developing an AR app, refer to both the AR Foundation documentation as well as the required packages for each platform you support.

Optional feature support

Android XR implements the following optional features of AR Foundation's XRAnchorSubsystem:

Feature	Descriptor Property	Supported
Trackable attachments	supportsTrackableAttachments	Yes
Synchronous add	supportsSynchronousAdd	Yes
Save anchor	supportsSaveAnchor	Yes
Load anchor	supportsLoadAnchor	Yes
Erase anchor	supportsEraseAnchor	Yes
Get saved anchor IDs	supportsGetSavedAnchorIds	Yes
Async cancellation	supportsAsyncCancellation

Note

Refer to AR Foundation Anchors platform support for more information on the optional features of the Anchor subsystem.