android beacon library get state for region

Question

BootstrapNotifier (i.e. MonitorNotifier) have callback for entering / exiting region but how to get the region state at app startup (how can app realize to be already IN a region)?

Answer 1

As of Android Beacon Library version 2.8.1, the only way to do this is via accessing some internal library classes like this:

if (MonitoringStatus.getInstanceForApplication(this).stateOf(region) != null && MonitoringStatus.getInstanceForApplication(this).stateOf(region).isInside()) { // Do something }

I would recommend against using this in production code, as this internal API is subject to change. In the next version of the library will have a way to get this information on the BeaconManager as so:

beaconManager.requestStateForRegion(region);

The above method will cause a callback to be made on the MonitorNotifier or BootstrapNotifier: didDetermineStateForRegion(int state, Region region);