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Is there anything close to standardized enough for non-Apple devices to implement this sort of functionality?
by superuser2 12y ago
Is there anything close to standardized enough for non-Apple devices to implement this sort of functionality?
- grrowl 12y agoTheoretically, there's no reason you couldn't write a similar app for Android devices which support BLE[1] to reimplement this functionality, but Panic have only ever written for Apple devices. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18906988/what-is-the-ibeacon-bluetooth-profile http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18906988/what-is-the-ibea...
- bitpew 12y agoThere is a open source iBeacon library for Android: https://github.com/RadiusNetworks/android-ibeacon-service https://github.com/RadiusNetworks/android-ibeacon-service Decoding the iBeacon packets is quite easy, but you need a device that supports BLE. Currently there are only a handful of Android devices that support it.