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By Christopher Sexton At Radius Networks, we’ve had our SDKs added to a ton of beacon apps, and we’ve tested a large percentage of them. One of the most frustrating things about working with beacon-enabled apps is testing background triggering. Usually, iPhone 5 and later trigger in the background within a second of seeing a […]

By Michael Harper R2-D2 Builders Club Launch Beacon-Powered Interactive Droid Experiences at Star Wars Celebration 2015 Today in Anaheim, California, Star Wars Celebration 2015 kicks off four days of Star Wars fan festivities. In addition to a sneak preview ahead of the December release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, fans will get the chance to finally

By Marc Wallace We are really excited to let you know that we just released our latest proximity beacon product: QuickBeacon for Windows With QuickBeacon for Windows, any Windows PC or Surface Pro tablet running Microsoft Windows 7 or higher, with an available USB port, can be turned into a fully-configurable, proximity beacon platform. Set It

By David G. Young It’s hard not to get lost at the Consumer Electronics Show. The event is simply huge. My colleague logged over 20,000 steps on his fitness tracker wandering around the show in a single day. The space spans three different halls at the Las Vegas Convention Center, another at the Sands Expo

By David G. Young The most basic use of beacon technology is to determine how far a mobile device is from a beacon, but as anybody who has played with beacon ranging knows, these distance estimates can have a significant degree of uncertainty. For a beacon that is 5 meters away, distance estimates might fluctuate

By David G. Young One of the most exciting new features of Android 5.0 is the support for Bluetooth LE peripheral mode, which makes it possible to turn an Android device to a beacon transmitter. Radius Networks is proud to release the new QuickBeacon app for Android 5.0, which creates a configurable beacon supporting both

By David G. Young One of the most common use cases for beacon-enabled applications is to perform an action when a user gets close to a specific location. Since beacons typically have a transmitting range of up to 50 meters, it’s often not appropriate to trigger that far away. A gas station app, for example,

By Chris Sexton Most mobile developers know that iOS will wake up their app in some cases and notify it of some event, things like geofence or beacon regions can cause this to happen. What’s interesting is that iOS not only notify an app that is sleeping in the background, but also apps that have

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