nRF Beacon
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About nRF Beacon
The nRF Beacon application lets you explore the full range of possibilities for beacons using Bluetooth Smart technology. The application has been designed to demonstrate all features of the nRF8122 Bluetooth® Smart Beacon Kit. It works partially with beacons from other manufacturers as well.
The application allows you register actions that will be triggered when specified event occur. Currently a beacon may silent the phone, open an application, open a website in a browser, show predefined information about an object (Mona Lisa painting) or play an alarm on one of the 4 events: beacon region has been entered or exited, a beacon is near or very close.
On Android 4.3 and 4.4.x the application requires nRF Beacon Service application to be installed on the device. It may be downloaded from Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=no.nordicsemi.android.beacon.service.
Since Android 5 (Lollipop) the service is build into the application and is using native API. The nRF Beacon Service application may be removed from the phone.
Note:
- Supported on Android version 4.3 or later.
- Tested on Samsung S3 with Android 4.3 and on Samsung S4, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 with Android 4.4.2, 4.4.4 and 5.
- Compatible with nRF51822 Bluetooth® Smart Beacon Kit
- You may find more information about nRF51822 Bluetooth® Smart Beacon Kit on our website: http://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Products/Bluetooth-R-low-energy/nRF51822-Bluetooth-Smart-Beacon-Kit
- The source code of nRF Beacon is available on GitHub: https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/Android-nRF-Beacon
- Various phones has different antennas thou may get other signal strength readings from the beacons.
The application allows you register actions that will be triggered when specified event occur. Currently a beacon may silent the phone, open an application, open a website in a browser, show predefined information about an object (Mona Lisa painting) or play an alarm on one of the 4 events: beacon region has been entered or exited, a beacon is near or very close.
On Android 4.3 and 4.4.x the application requires nRF Beacon Service application to be installed on the device. It may be downloaded from Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=no.nordicsemi.android.beacon.service.
Since Android 5 (Lollipop) the service is build into the application and is using native API. The nRF Beacon Service application may be removed from the phone.
Note:
- Supported on Android version 4.3 or later.
- Tested on Samsung S3 with Android 4.3 and on Samsung S4, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 with Android 4.4.2, 4.4.4 and 5.
- Compatible with nRF51822 Bluetooth® Smart Beacon Kit
- You may find more information about nRF51822 Bluetooth® Smart Beacon Kit on our website: http://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Products/Bluetooth-R-low-energy/nRF51822-Bluetooth-Smart-Beacon-Kit
- The source code of nRF Beacon is available on GitHub: https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/Android-nRF-Beacon
- Various phones has different antennas thou may get other signal strength readings from the beacons.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
20.06.2016 - version 1.4.3
- Triggering alarm event fixed
- DFU library version 0.6.2
25.08.2015 - version 1.4.2
- Migration to Android API 23 Marshmallow
- Requesting location permission on Marshmallow: required to scan for BLE devices
- Small changes in layouts: FAB and TabLayout from support design lib
22.07.2015 - version 1.4.1
- Migration to new DfuServiceInitiator and DfuProgressListener (see GitHub for details)
20.06.2016 - version 1.4.3
- Triggering alarm event fixed
- DFU library version 0.6.2
25.08.2015 - version 1.4.2
- Migration to Android API 23 Marshmallow
- Requesting location permission on Marshmallow: required to scan for BLE devices
- Small changes in layouts: FAB and TabLayout from support design lib
22.07.2015 - version 1.4.1
- Migration to new DfuServiceInitiator and DfuProgressListener (see GitHub for details)
Version update nRF Beacon was updated to version 1.4.3
Version update nRF Beacon was updated to version 1.4.2
More downloads nRF Beacon reached 10 000 - 50 000 downloads
More downloads nRF Beacon reached 5 000 - 10 000 downloads
What are users saying about nRF Beacon
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You say iBeacons, you need to pick up Apple iBeacons. Unless you, Nordic, are coming up with nBeacon put in some major $$$ for traction so the tool is useful for serious work, support Apple discovery
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Good luck
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When running, it detects the beacons just fine, but the app will not stay running, so detection will not work in the background, making this pretty useless. :( S4 on 5.0.1
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On Samsung S4 (GT-I9505), The app can't detect any beacons
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all functionality needed for testing is in this, brilliant
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Thank you for providing free android application example.
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Did not detect my iPhone 5 in broadcasting mode whereas other similar apps were easily able to.
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Couldn't easily locate my Raspberry Pi and couldn't easily find the uuid online. Other apps are more open.
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This seems like a good way to demonstrate beacon functionality. However, even with the update I cannot get alarms to generate consistently and sometimes even at all for 'near' and 'away' events, even when the signal strength indicator shows proximity. I am using an S3 which is supposed to be supported. This would not be the customer experience we are looking for, although the concept is extremely compelling.
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Power up the Beacon, install the app but cannot add any device. running Android 7.1.1. It keep scanning, my Bluetooth is on, but just continue scanning, but cannot get any nRF device..