Blog Posts

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

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