Questions tagged [ibeacon-android]

iBeacon in a single sentence is a technology that enables an iOS device or other hardware to send push notifications to iOS devices within close proximity using BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy).

Apple’s iBeacon works on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), also known as Bluetooth 4.0 or Bluetooth Smart. In a real life scenario it would be more of a location-aware, context-aware, pervasive small wireless sensor beacon which could pinpoint your location in a store. From there iBeacons could send you personal notifications of items around you that are on sale or items you may be looking for. It could enable payments at the point of Sale (POS) such that you don’t need to remove your wallet or card to make a payment. It could be a possible Near Field Communication (NFC) competitor.

It works by using Bluetooth Low Energy Proximity sensing to transmit a Universally unique identifier which when picked up by a compatible app or operating system can be turned into a physical location or trigger a specific action on the device such as a Check-in on social media.

Since BLE is a low energy technology it may face lot of challenges, such as data transmission rate, streaming might not be possible, security still remains an unclear subject, how would it manage broadcasting offers information on mass scale when in-store traffic is at its peak.

The beacons themselves come in a number of different formats, including small coin cell powered devices, USB sticks and software versions.

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How to make Ibeacon device can detect other devices

I've got several pieces of Ibeacon signal sender from online sellers(all small business, no brand), they're quite cheap and small, and can support configuration by my IPad mini, which include the 'device name', 'Proximity UUID', 'Broadcasting…
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In Android, How to get ibeacon details onExitedRegion when Region is created with proximity UUID only

I am working on android application with Estimote beacons. I am trying to work on a scenario where i will be using more than 100 beacons. For this, instead of creating separate Region for each beacon, I am creating single Region by assigning common…
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When using Radius Networks Android IBeacon library in android.app.Service, it didn't work

I am using Radius Networks Android IBeacon library. But when I try to use it in service ,it didn't work, just like the problem in this page: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22439299/ranging-ibeacons-in-service-thread#. I can get a good…
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Android IBeacon Library: How to not directly use an activity

The premise is I am writing a library that in itself uses and implements the IBeacon SDK. My code has to implement that SDK, does things and if someone uses my library they dont have to interact with this SDK at all, so I'm making a higher level…
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Android IBeaconManager not connecting from activity

I'm using the IBeacon SDK from radius networks on the android. Im currently using the IBeaconManager in one Activity and one Service. When the app first launches, The activity binds its iBeaconManager object however onIBeaconServiceConnect never…
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Get iBeacon UUID Radius Network Library

I've downloaded the non pro version of the Radius Networks iBeacon Android Library and I have run the sample code from their site here and all works well. However, rather than creating a new region, I want to be able to get the ibeacon data --…
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Time of detecting ibeacon: background and foreground time

In detect ibeacon, why we should detect them in background and foreground. what should we do in background and foreground. and time to do them.
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Cannot bind to Radius Networks Android IBeacon service

So, I have just build and demonstrated the free Radius Networks IBeacon Android library. Working perfectly for me. I have just ported over the code to my own app and updated the followinG: Updated Manifest to specify BLUETOOTH & BLUETOOTH_ADMIN…
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IBeacon Android not recognising beacon

I have mac and I've gotten macbeacon for it. I have downloaded the free IBeacon for Android library and I am trying to write a basic activity that displays a toast once in range but it's not working...here is what I've done: import…
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How to prevent cloning in Ibeacons and avoid conflicts among beacons?

I am trying to develop one app with using a lot of beacons like say in any muti floor shopping mall. In this situation how can I control these Suppose someone clones a beacon and starts advertsing the signal with same UUID, major, and minor, how to…
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IBeacon getting warning Implcit intents are not safe on callback of MonitorNotifier

I am using Android 4.4 and getting a warning message in the callback of Monitoring when a beacon with specified region is found. code I am using for monitoring is @Override public void onIBeaconServiceConnect() { …
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Android iBeacon Library fromScanData returning null always

I have been trying to write an application to detect iBeacons. (I set up my iPhone 5 as iBeacon) I slightly changed the fromScanData method to return only proximity UUID String. I have no idea how the pattern detection works. It always Logs "This is…
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Nexus 5 does not see iPhone 5 configured as iBeacon

I have configured an Iphone 5 to be an iBeacon transmitter following this instructions. Then I have installed this application on my Nexus 5. But my Nexus is not able to see the iBeacon-iPhone device.. Do you have any idea why? Thanks a lot!!
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is it possible for iBeacon to act as just normal BLE data transmission module after connection?

i know that iBeacon use only advertising channel. which means there is no need connection. im trying to make my own beacon module which send and receive data. im curious about what makes the packet in iBeacon format(prefix /UUID / minor/ major/ TX)…
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Setting iBeacon transmiting range

Currently, i am using a raspberry pi as a beacon transmitter and i would like to know if i can adjust the transmission range. I did configure my raspberry pi using this tutorial Radius Network Tutorial Basically, i want to lower the transmitting…
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