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What is Spatial SDK?

Developing with Spatial SDK

Getting started

Build your first app

Create new Spatial SDK app

Add Spatial SDK to 2D app

Continue building your app

VR basics for 2D developers

Meta Horizon Android Studio Plugin

Template project walkthrough

Connect Spatial Editor

Meta Spatial Editor

Architecture overview

SpatialActivity lifecycle

Entity-Component-System (ECS)

Understand components

Supported attributes

Built-in components

Create a custom component

Understand systems

Create a custom system

Use queries to access entities

Filter query results

Create and handle events

Create reusable ECS modules

Runtime guidelines

User input and interactions

Input and controllers

Interaction SDK

Grabbable objects in ISDK

Listen for ISDK input events

Supporting systems

Understand scenes

Using the Scene class

Scene compositions (glXF)

Customize your environment

Use Mixed Reality Utility Kit

Custom 3D models (glTF)

Load and manage 3D objects

Enable passthrough

Passthrough camera access

Spatial Scanner

Passthrough camera access API

ML kit object tracking

Llama integration

Create hybrid experiences

Experimental features

Advanced queries

Query for changed entities

Query for child components

Developer tools

Input forwarding

Data Model Inspector (DMI)

Auto-validate XML

Use Meta Quest scriptable testing services to enable E2E testing

Performance and optimization

Horizon Billing Compatibility

Horizon Billing Compatibility SDK

Google Play Billing interface

Known limitations

Platform Solutions

Reference Content

The Platform SDK developer reference contains a complete list of the Platform SDK headers, functions, and data structures.

To view the latest content, see the Platform Reference.

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