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Learning ibeacon

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Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2014

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781784397128

Length 196 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Single Board Computers

Author (1):

Craig Gilchrist

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Welcome to iBeacon FREE CHAPTER

2. Detecting Beacons – Showing an Advert

3. Broadcasting Advertisements – Sending Offers

4. Ranging Beacons – Hunting for Treasure

5. Detecting Beacons in the Background – Location Dating

6. Leaving Regions – Don't Forget Your Stuff

7. Vendor SDKs – Buying and Configuring Beacons

8. Advanced Tutorial – iBeacon Museum

9. iBeacon Security – Understanding the Risks

Index

Chapter 5. Detecting Beacons in the Background – Location Dating

So far, we have talked about discovering beacons, ranging beacons, and even using our iOS device to broadcast as a beacon. You should be feeling pretty empowered right now. All of these use cases, however, require your app to be running.

Having a running app for every use case isn't realistic. Considering that iBeacons are basically triggers for functionality, it makes sense that some of this functionality might be to bring the app into the foreground. In this chapter, we'll explore some other use cases where the app might be running in the background and is brought to life when a beacon region is entered.

To demonstrate background beacon detection, we'll create a location-based dating app that notifies the user when a potential date is nearby.

We'll cover the following topics:

Monitoring for beacons in the background
iOS architecture to defer region monitoring to the operating system
Different...

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Authors (1)

Craig Gilchrist

Craig Gilchrist

Craig Gilchrist is the Digital Director at Eden Agency (http://createdineden.com/), a small but mighty digital agency that is at the forefront of proximity marketing. His team is one of the first to release commercial iBeacon-powered apps in the world and currently boast over 1.5 million app downloads in multiple fields and have a perfectly balanced technical and creative team. Craig is based in North Yorkshire, England, and has been developing commercial software since graduating from the University of Teesside in 2004 with a BSc in Software Engineering and has been building apps for iOS since 2009. Craig is an avid reader and is always at the forefront of commercial technological developments. Other than mobile app development and digital marketing, Craig also has a keen interest in developing rich media, including gaming, children's interactive media, and a very keen interest in Unity and virtual reality with Oculus Rift.

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