{"id":1388,"date":"2017-02-10T10:33:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T10:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2020-07-13T12:26:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T12:26:54","slug":"beacon-locator-android-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/beacon-locator-android-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Beacon Locator Android App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A growing number of people are using beacons for personal use. Today, we added the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.samebits.beacon.locator&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beacon Locator\u00a0Android app<\/a> to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/solutionsdirectory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solutions Directory<\/a>. It allows you to set up action types such as opening a URL, broadcasting an Android intent, starting an app, changing the sound profile and running tasks via Tasker in response to detecting or losing a beacon signal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1389\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/beaconaction.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/beaconaction.png 270w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/beaconaction-169x300.png 169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 85vw, 270px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s especially interesting about this app is that it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/vitas\/beaconloc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open source<\/a> allowing you to extend it to a multitude of personal and business scenarios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A growing number of people are using beacons for personal use. Today, we added the Beacon Locator\u00a0Android app to our Solutions Directory. It allows you to set up action types such as opening a URL, broadcasting an Android intent, starting an app, changing the sound profile and running tasks via Tasker in response to detecting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/beacon-locator-android-app\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beacon Locator Android App&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,6,97,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5232,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/5232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}