Blog Posts

By David G. Young It’s common for beacon-enabled apps to want to detect beacons, even when the app is not running in the foreground. Since looking for beacons requires Bluetooth LE scanning, doing this constantly in the background can be a real battery drain. The good news is that Android 5.0 has implemented new APIs […]

By Michael Harper Swift is the new programming language from Apple announced at WWDC 2014. As of September 9, 2014, you can now submit apps that use Swift to the App Store. In my copious free time, I’ve been getting both my hands dirty and my feet wet with Swift on several projects. Here I’ll show you how

By Aaron Kromer The Radius Networks team is committed to building the features and services necessary to promote Android as a first-class citizen in the world of beacons and proximity services, so we are thrilled to announce the re-release of our Proximity Kit Android SDK. This is a major update which not only provides support for

By Marc Wallace Recently, we removed our Android beacon tools and related projects from our website. We are happy to announce that we are re-releasing them with a major update that we feel will establish a stronger foundation and ecosystem for proximity solutions and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacon development. Our team feels strongly that

By Marc Wallace You may have noticed some changes to our website and to the products and technologies that we offer. I want to take a moment to give you a little insight and understanding of why these changes have occurred. Our Proximity Kit SDKs and Android Beacon Pro Libraries are in transition at the

By James Nebeker Update 7/8/2014: We’ve released Version 3.1 to address stability issues when scanning for beacons and to add some new features. This update can be downloaded here and you can read more about these features in the updated instructions page. We’re thrilled to announce a major update to the Beacon Development Kit, now with the

By James Nebeker Beacon™ proximity technology is an exciting tool already being used by retailers and developers to build location-aware apps to improve user experience and much more. In this post, we’ll show you an easy way to harness iBeacon™ technology in your own home, without having to do any serious programming or developing. In

By David G. Young Lots of folks using proximity beacons with Android devices have been suffering from repeat error dialogs saying “Unfortunately, Bluetooth Share has Stopped”. These annoying dialogs are caused by low-level bug #67272 in the Bluedroid stack, which is a layer between the operating system and the Bluetooth hardware. While the bug has been around

By David G. Young The release of iOS 7.1 has led to some hope that the new release will improve beacon background detection times. Repeating earlier tests on iOS 7.0 shows this not to be the case — it can still take up to 15 minutes to detect an beacon in the background. These tests used a

By Marc Wallace We see a lot comments and posts in the media that mistakenly tout proximity beacons as a way to ‘track’ customers. This has become yet another common misconception of beacons, so I’d like to clarify how beacons relate to the issue of privacy. Beacons are transmit only. They do not receive or