Proximity Beacons and the Nearby API

Walkthrough of using Google's Proximity Beacon API to provision and manage BLE beacons, coupling that with the client-side Nearby Messages API to enhance beacon message contents.

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1. ENHANCING BEACON APPLICATIONS WITH GOOGLE AND NEARBY DAVE SMITH, PE ANDROID LEAD, NEWCIRCLE @DEVUNWIRED • +DAVESMITHDEV
2. PROXIMITY BEACON API
3. PROVISIONING METADATA DIAGNOSTICS
4. PROVISIONING METADATA DIAGNOSTICS
5. METADATA BEACON ADVERTISED ID STABILITY PROPERTIES LOCATION ATTACHMENT NAME NAMESPACED TYPE DATA
6. METADATA PLACE ID LAT/LNG INDOOR LEVEL BEACON ADVERTISED ID STABILITY PROPERTIES LOCATION ATTACHMENT NAME NAMESPACED TYPE DATA
7. METADATA PLACE ID LAT/LNG INDOOR LEVEL BEACON ADVERTISED ID STABILITY PROPERTIES LOCATION BASE64 ENCODED BLOB ATTACHMENT NAME NAMESPACED TYPE DATA
8. PROVISIONING METADATA DIAGNOSTICS
9. PROVISIONING REGISTER ACTIVATE DEACTIVATE DECOMMISSION
10. PROVISIONING METADATA DIAGNOSTICS
11. DIAGNOSTICS
12. DIAGNOSTICS
13. NEARBY MESSAGES API
16. Beacon O bserved
17. Beacon O bserved A ttachm ents
18. Beacon O bserved A ttachm ents
19. Beacon O bserved A ttachm ents
20. BEACON API NEARBY API
21. ATTACHMENT NAME NAMESPACED TYPE DATA MESSAGE TYPE CONTENT BEACON API NEARBY API
23. private void subscribe() {
 Log.d(TAG, "Subscribing…");
 Nearby.Messages.subscribe(
 mGoogleApiClient,
 mMessageListener,
 Strategy.BLE_ONLY);
 }
24. FOREGROUND SUBSCRIPTIONS ONLY private void subscribe() {
 Log.d(TAG, "Subscribing…");
 Nearby.Messages.subscribe(
 mGoogleApiClient,
 mMessageListener,
 Strategy.BLE_ONLY);
 }
25. MessageListener mMessageListener = new MessageListener() {
 // Called each time a new message is discovered nearby.
 @Override
 public void onFound(Message message) {
 Log.i(TAG, "Found message: " + message);
 }
 
 // Called when the publisher (beacon) is no longer nearby.
 @Override
 public void onLost(Message message) {
 Log.i(TAG, "Lost message: " + message);
 }
 };
26. MessageListener mMessageListener = new MessageListener() {
 // Called each time a new message is discovered nearby.
 @Override
 public void onFound(Message message) {
 Log.i(TAG, "Found message: " + message);
 }
 
 // Called when the publisher (beacon) is no longer nearby.
 @Override
 public void onLost(Message message) {
 Log.i(TAG, "Lost message: " + message);
 }
 }; CALLBACKS NOT ON MAIN THREAD
27. MORE RESOURCES ▸ Beacon API Docs ▸ https://developers.google.com/beacons/proximity/guides ▸ Nearby Messages Docs ▸ https://developers.google.com/nearby/messages/overview ▸ Proximity Beacons Series ▸ Video: Eddystone Beacon Format ▸ https://newcircle.com/s/tags/beacons ▸ Sample Code ▸ http://milehighandroid.com/