{"id":2152,"date":"2017-11-09T12:14:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T12:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2017-11-09T12:17:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T12:17:11","slug":"can-beacons-be-used-with-windows-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/can-beacons-be-used-with-windows-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Beacons Be Used With Windows Phone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, provided the phones use Windows Phone 10 or later. Prior versions don&#8217;t have the necessary <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/uwp\/devices-sensors\/ble-beacon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">APIs<\/a> to scan for beacons.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/andijakl\/universal-beacon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3rd party library<\/a> that abstracts away some of the complications of interpreting the different kinds of advertising (iBeacon, Eddystone). There&#8217;s alsoa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/store\/p\/bluetooth-beacon-interactor\/9nblggh1z24k?rtc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sample app<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, provided the phones use Windows Phone 10 or later. Prior versions don&#8217;t have the necessary APIs to scan for beacons. There&#8217;s also a 3rd party library that abstracts away some of the complications of interpreting the different kinds of advertising (iBeacon, Eddystone). There&#8217;s alsoa sample app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,29,2,176],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152"}],"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=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}