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Learning ibeacon

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2014
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ISBN-13 9781784397128
Length 196 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Craig Gilchrist Craig Gilchrist
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

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

Our exhibitions


Our iBeacon museum is made up of three exhibitions. Each exhibition contains three displays, which we'll refer to as exhibits.

Our entire museum will use the 1A285B28-EA1B-43F5-984A-CE5D2ED463CE UUID. We'll be using major values to identify the exhibitions and the minor values to identify the exhibits beneath them as shown in the following figure:

iBeacon museum exhibits

Because researching, collating, and even designing beautiful exhibit views is way beyond the scope of our app, what we'll be doing instead is using UIWebView to display our exhibit information. This way, we can concentrate on what's important for our app.

Other than skimming over the designs and using predefined, responsively-designed web views for our exhibit content, our app is pretty much a fully functioning real-world example. You can take the code base on this app and reuse it in a commercial application if you wish, and of course, you have my consent to do so. I'd love to see your commercial applications...

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