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dxganta / Contact-Tracing-App-TracerX

Prototype of a Contact Tracing App made using Flutter and Google's Nearby API.
MIT License
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IOS and background usage #1

Closed newbieflutter closed 3 years ago

newbieflutter commented 4 years ago

Hi, How can it be used for both ios and android? Also how to run in background?

dxganta commented 4 years ago

Currently, the flutter package I used, i.e nearby_connections only supports Android.

But if you want to use for both android and IOS, then instead of using nearby_connections you may use the flutter_blue package(https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_blue )which uses only bluetooth.

Also once a user opens the app and clicks on the Start Tracing button, the app will continue running in the background.

newbieflutter commented 4 years ago

Hi Diganta, Yes I notice that the nearby_connections has no support for ios. Secondly I have test the flutter_blue unfortunately it only scan ble and I test most phone are not on ble example it can only scan my mouse cause its using ble? What best do you suggest for flutter with pure bluetooth or I am also looking into beacon?

dxganta commented 4 years ago

Hey, Actually, there is no best. All libraries have some shortcomings. And some are just pure shit. The best approach I would suggest you is to just try out the ones with higher than 70 ratings until you find the most suitable for your use-case both functionally and doc-wise too.

And using beacon though might help, but it wont be so practical for this particular use.