To start working with the Dot I needed to access its various identifiers which the app listens for. RadBeacon Dot's are turned on with one click and they will flash once green. Instead for my testing purposes, I selected a relatively inexpensive RadBeacon Dot which allowed me to cleanly separate the beacon from the app I'll build to run on my phone.
#Make radbeacon sned notification simulator#
Unfortunately, the iOS Simulator does not support a simulated iBeacon.Īn alternative is you can setup an iPhone as a beacon itself but in thinking about this, it seemed like too much hassle as I wanted to run both the pseudo-beacon on my phone and the beacon monitoring app at the same time. When building an iOS app developers typically rely on the iOS Simulator for testing. What Is an iBeacon?įor anyone reading this article out of curiosity and wondering what an iBeacon is, there are plenty of articles available to discuss the concept including a generalized article from Wikipedia, a technical article from MBed that discusses the differences between iBeacons, altBeacons and Eddystone, and an article about how beacons are slowly being adopted into airports as a real use case example.Īs this article is specifically about detecting beacons on iOS, I'll focus on iOS's support for Apple's iBeacon standard going forward. So with these two ideas in mind, rather than just creating a demo I thought it would be a good chance to address the common request for more information by writing this article and sharing it on DZone for other's to benefit.
#Make radbeacon sned notification code#
In addition NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescriptionone of my goals was to not hard code the beacon identifier and message in the app, but instead dynamically derive messages from a beacon cloud registry. This is a pretty common use case for beacons, but in building this I did discover that iOS's CoreLocation library doesn't make this entirely simple in the way that it raises events on our mobile user entering and exiting the beacon's range. This week's demo de jour (French was never my forté) is an iOS Swift iBeacon app designed to show a message when, say, our mobile user approaches a beacon identifying a theoretical shop "Chris's Emporium". In creating many proof-of-concept mobile apps and then presenting the apps at various events, we often get thanks from the audience but "can you please give me an article I can read to learn from your research and see how you solved the problem?"
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