Hi all,
for my next project I'd like to play with BLE/BLE2 beacons. I've read a few threads available on our forum, but I feel it's time to update all the info and on-the-field experience gathered through the yeras.
So, please, contribute with your successful (and failing) stories about products, OS versions, limitations,...
Reading past threads, it seems that the Eddystone way is "safer" then the iBeacon one since for the latter to be used with iOS devices you should know beforehand the UDID of the beacons you will use in your project. Does it still apply?
Another point could be: can we deploy an app that costantly searches for beacons (while draining some battery) even while in background? I hope in an OS generated event when a beacon/ble device is found (but startforeground+partiallock in Android could be ok too as long as there's an iOS counterpart).
Anyway, let's start with the basics: pros and cons.
Thank you all
for my next project I'd like to play with BLE/BLE2 beacons. I've read a few threads available on our forum, but I feel it's time to update all the info and on-the-field experience gathered through the yeras.
So, please, contribute with your successful (and failing) stories about products, OS versions, limitations,...
Reading past threads, it seems that the Eddystone way is "safer" then the iBeacon one since for the latter to be used with iOS devices you should know beforehand the UDID of the beacons you will use in your project. Does it still apply?
Another point could be: can we deploy an app that costantly searches for beacons (while draining some battery) even while in background? I hope in an OS generated event when a beacon/ble device is found (but startforeground+partiallock in Android could be ok too as long as there's an iOS counterpart).
Anyway, let's start with the basics: pros and cons.
Thank you all