{"id":6616,"date":"2021-08-27T09:25:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T09:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6616"},"modified":"2021-08-27T09:35:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T09:35:54","slug":"new-flutter-beacon-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/new-flutter-beacon-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Flutter Beacon Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you want to try Bluetooth beacon advertising from your iOS or Android smartphone there&#8217;s a Flutter plugin called <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/flutterawesome.com\/a-flutter-plugin-for-turning-your-device-into-a-beacon\/\" target=\"_blank\">beacon_broadcast<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"711\" height=\"471\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/flutterbeacon.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/flutterbeacon.png 711w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/flutterbeacon-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Simulating a beacon from a smartphone is a great way to get started and explore Bluetooth LE prior to buying dedicated hardware devices. However, it&#8217;s not something you should progress to regular use because advertising in this way uses a lot of battery power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beacon_broadcast is open source and the source code can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/pszklarska\/beacon_broadcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to try Bluetooth beacon advertising from your iOS or Android smartphone there&#8217;s a Flutter plugin called beacon_broadcast: Simulating a beacon from a smartphone is a great way to get started and explore Bluetooth LE prior to buying dedicated hardware devices. However, it&#8217;s not something you should progress to regular use because advertising &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/new-flutter-beacon-plugin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flutter Beacon Plugin&#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":[287],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616"}],"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=6616"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6621,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616\/revisions\/6621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}