How to turn Android device into an iBeacon?

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Estimote Fleet Management SDK for Android

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How to turn Android device into an iBeacon? #22

Closed kramer65 closed 10 years ago

kramer65 commented 10 years ago

I'm after turning my Android device into an iBeacon, and I hoped to use your library for this. Unfortunately I just read this page on which it says:

Unfortunately, it is not possible to make an iBeacon out of an Android device, because the Android Bluetooth LE APIs do not support the peripheral mode needed to send advertisement packets like in iBeacon.

So my question; does this also account for this library? Is there absolutely no way, to turn an Android device into an iBeacon?

wiktor commented 10 years ago

That is correct. There is no way right now to turn Android device into an iBeacon. There are no peripheral APIs for Bluetooth in Android.