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I've started to use the Android Beacon Library from RadiusNetwork. After some try, i've reached the result to display my iBeacon data on Nexus 5. The questions are:

The distance are in meters or in some other units? I've seen that there is an algorithm based upon the power and the rssi, there is a way to improve the precision of the function beacon.getDistance()?

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The units are in meters. The included algorithm is based on a best fit curve using measured distance vs. 60 second averaged RSSI values for a Nexus 5. The real time estimates are based on a 20 second average of the RSSI.

You may easily customize the algorithm by overriding the Beacon class with one that provides a custom calculateDistance method.

You tell the library about your new beacon class by making a custom BeaconParser class that returns this beacon type from the BeaconParser.fromScanData method. Once you have this class, you register it like so:

BeaconManager.getBeaconParsers().add(myCustomBeaconParser);

davidgyoung
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