Blog Posts

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

By James Nebeker We are excited to announce an update to our top-selling Beacon Development Kit. With version 2.0, we made the kit more user friendly and added new features that make it even more valuable in the development of beacon-enabled apps. This post will outline these new features and how they can be helpful as

By Chris Sexton Beacons are great. A rock solid way to build proximity solutions into mobile applications. However there is some confusion about how they actually work. Here are the 5 most common misconceptions about iBeacon™ technology that we see. #1 Beacons Deliver Content They don’t deliver anything. They simply broadcast a few identifiers. Beacons

By David G. Young Since we released the open source Android Library a few months ago, allowing Android devices to detect beacons just like iOS, the stand-out feature that keeps Android devices from parity with iOS is the ability to act as a beacon. The library is based on the Bluetooth LE support, added to Android 4.3

By David G. Young There has been lots of confusion about how Beacon monitoring and ranging work in the background on iOS. In general ranging only works in the foreground, but monitoring updates can happen in the background. There are two ways to configure background monitoring, and even when done properly updates can take a

By David G. Young So, is there any way to to monitor or range for any beacon regardless of its ProximityUUID on iOS? The short answer is no. The long answer involves trying a couple of different ways: CoreLocation APIs Using the CoreLocation APIs, the obvious way to look for all beacons is to pass