Sceneview

SceneView

The AI-first 3D & AR SDK for Jetpack Compose — and the web.

Declarative 3D and AR for app developers who want a model on screen, or in the room, without a game engine: Filament + ARCore on Android, Filament.js + WebXR in the browser, and a Compose Multiplatform viewer. It is the maintained successor to Google Sceneform. Open source, Apache 2.0.

Moving from Sceneform, or from SceneView 2.x code (Scene(childNodes = …), ARScene)? The mapping. Which artifact fits your app: 3D and AR library, per platform.

Used in production. More than 1,300 stars on GitHub, and over 500 public repositories declare SceneView as a dependency. It ships in Medal, IKEA, Lenskart and Safie on Google Play, is declared by the open-source apps Bitkey (Block) and Vocable (WillowTree), and is a dependency of the GeneXus Augmented Reality module and the TruVideo camera SDK. The Niantic Spatial SDK samples use it for AR.

AI-first means one thing here: an assistant that reads llms.txt or the MCP server writes SceneView code that works on the first try. When it doesn't, the API or the doc gets fixed.

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Try it

The demo apps are built from samples/. Any demo opens straight from a link: https://sceneview.github.io/open?demo= . Start with Cosmos, the galaxy the catalogue opens on, or 3D Scan, a space scanned with ARCore and rebuilt in 3D.

A living room scanned in 3D Scan on a Pixel 9, then rebuilt as a model (sped up).

Help test the demos

Install the Android demo, record your screen while you use a demo, and tell us what breaks or confuses you: open an issue with the recording attached, or send it from the app (any demo, Settings, then Send feedback).

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Quick start

One minimal, working example per platform. The full reference for each is in llms.txt.

Android

// build.gradle.kts

implementation("io.github.sceneview:sceneview:4.69.5")

The app module needs compileSdk = 37, minSdk 24 or higher, AGP 9.4.0+, Kotlin 2.3 or newer and JVM target 21 for both Java and Kotlin: SceneView ships Java 21 bytecode with public inline functions. The quickstart requirements give the Gradle snippet and the reason for each.

Stuck on AGP 8 / compileSdk 36 / Kotlin 2.2? Use 4.18.0, the newest release that builds there.

import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxSize

import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier import io.github.sceneview.SceneView import io.github.sceneview.rememberModelInstance

@Composable fun ModelScreen() { SceneView(modifier = Modifier.fillMaxSize()) { // orbit camera + default lighting rememberModelInstance(modelLoader, "models/helmet.glb")?.let { instance -> ModelNode(modelInstance = instance, scaleToUnits = 1.0f, autoAnimate = true) } } }

models/helmet.glb lives in src/main/assets/. rememberModelInstance returns null until the model is loaded, then recomposes. Never call modelLoader.createModel* from a background coroutine: Filament calls must run on the main thread, and rememberModelInstance handles that.

AR (Android)

// build.gradle.kts

implementation("io.github.sceneview:arsceneview:4.69.5") // includes the 3D module

import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxSize

import androidx.compose.runtime.* import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier import com.google.ar.core.Anchor import com.google.ar.core.Plane import io.github.sceneview.ar.ARSceneView import io.github.sceneview.ar.arcore.createAnchorOrNull import io.github.sceneview.ar.arcore.getUpdatedPlanes import io.github.sceneview.rememberModelInstance

@Composable fun ARScreen() { var anchor by remember { mutableStateOf (null) }

ARSceneView( modifier = Modifier.fillMaxSize(), planeRenderer = true, onSessionUpdated = { _, frame -> if (anchor == null) { anchor = frame.getUpdatedPlanes() .firstOrNull { it.type == Plane.Type.HORIZONTAL_UPWARD_FACING } ?.let { it.createAnchorOrNull(it.centerPose) } } } ) { val helmet = rememberModelInstance(modelLoader, "models/helmet.glb") anchor?.let { a -> AnchorNode(anchor = a) { helmet?.let { ModelNode(modelInstance = it, scaleToUnits = 0.5f) } } } } }

Plane detected → anchor set → Compose recomposes → the model appears. AR state is just Kotlin state. For placement without a tap, grounded and gesture-ready, start from AutoPlacementScene (see llms.txt).

arsceneview already declares the CAMERA permission and marks ARCore as optional. An AR Optional app declares android.hardware.camera.ar and android.hardware.camera as ; an AR Required app overrides the ARCore value with tools:replace="android:value". Both snippets are in the AR manifest section.

Web

<canvas id="viewer" style="width: 100%; height: 480px"></canvas>

Compose Multiplatform (Android · iOS · desktop)

// commonMain dependencies

implementation("io.github.sceneview:sceneview-compose:4.69.5")

SceneViewer(model = ModelSource.Asset("models/helmet.glb"), modifier = Modifier.fillMaxSize())

A viewer by design — load, orbit, light, tap; no AR. Scope and the one-time iOS setup: sceneview-compose/.

iOS, Flutter and React Native

SceneView for SwiftUI (SceneViewSwift), Flutter (flutter_sceneview) and React Native (@sceneview-sdk/react-native) is deprecated: 4.68.0 is their last release. Published versions stay installable and the source stays in this repository — what that means and the timeline.

Your AI assistant

claude mcp add sceneview -- npx -y sceneview-mcp   # Claude Code

codex mcp add sceneview -- npx -y sceneview-mcp # Codex

Then ask: *"Add a 3D model viewer to my Compose screen."* Every other client is in Use with AI.

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Runs on

Each row is a published package plus an app or page you can open today, backed by a real capture of it.

*Shipped* means released and publicly reachable; the second word is the API maturity. The other platforms in the table below join this section once a capture backs them.

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Platforms

| Compose Multiplatform | Filament (Android, desktop) · RealityKit (iOS) | `scene