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AltBeacon / ios-beacon-tools

Tools for working with beacons with CoreBluetooth
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Background detection #13

Closed awazgyawali closed 7 months ago

awazgyawali commented 4 years ago

I use this project to scan beacons, and I need to continue scanning even if the app goes to the background. The case I am having, the iPhone will not go to sleep or lock the screen but the user is supposed to go to google maps navigation screen and again come back to my app. While my app is in the background and google map is in the foreground, I still want my app to detect beacons and play a sound that I am doing currently on android using the alt beacon library. Is this possible by activating background modes or we cannot add this feature at all using CoreBluetooth?

cimplesid commented 3 years ago

@awazgyawali I was doing similar stuff any solution yet ?

awazgyawali commented 3 years ago

@cimplesid You cannot do bluetooth device scanning using this library on background. If you really want to do this then you can use core location to invoke the app and scan iBeacons on background. Once the iBeacon wakes your app, you have 10 -30 seconds of window where you can do other stuff. That window might be useful to scan alt beacons using this library code.

This is on the assumption that the same bluetooth device will broadcast iBeacon and your altbeacon signal together.

cimplesid commented 3 years ago

i think issue can be closed