{"id":534,"date":"2021-05-10T08:35:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T08:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=534"},"modified":"2024-10-20T13:37:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T13:37:48","slug":"starting-android-ibeacon-app-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/starting-android-ibeacon-app-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting Android iBeacon App Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here are some pointers how to go about Android beacon development:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/guide\/topics\/connectivity\/bluetooth-le.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Android documentation<\/a> is excellent.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/category\/android\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posts tagged Android<\/a> on this blog.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Avoid the libraries produced by the beacon manufacturers. They tend to add little value, are usually poorly documented and aren&#8217;t changed when there are updates to underlying Android libraries. You can achieve everything with the Android APIs. The only exception is connecting via GATT to\u00a0Sensoro beacons where the Service\/Characteristic information isn&#8217;t publicly available and hence you have to use their SDK.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/git.ti.com\/sensortag-20-android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TI SensorTag library<\/a> has some great examples of how to connect via GATT.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nordic Semiconductor, the manufacturer of the System on a Chip (SoC) in most beacons, has useful libraries for <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/NordicSemiconductor\/Android-Scanner-Compat-Library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">scanning<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/NordicSemiconductor\/Android-BLE-Library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">connecting via GATT<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Take a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/bluetoothle.wiki\/android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bluetooth LE Wiki<\/a> for links to more resources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you need more help we provide <a href=\"https:\/\/beaconzone.consulting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">beacon app development services<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some pointers how to go about Android beacon development: If you need more help we provide beacon app development services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534"}],"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=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9567,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/9567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}