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Package Proposal: beacons #21

Closed awazgyawali closed 5 years ago

awazgyawali commented 5 years ago

Package Proposal: beacons

Dependency name (as used in pubspec.yaml): beacons Current pub.dev Link: https://pub.dev/packages/beacons Description: Flutter beacons plugin for iOS and Android. Current maintainer: [Loup Inc., lukasz@intheloup.io AND lukaspili] Needs new maintainer after transfer: [YES] New maintainer (if applicable): [Aawaz Gyawali, awazgyawali@gmail.com] Reason for transfer: The author has abandoned the project and there is plenty of PR that needs to be merged to make it better.

jeroen-meijer commented 5 years ago

Hello there,

Thanks for submitting the package proposal.

I haven't used iBeacons myself yet, and neither have I any of them to test the functionality. That's why the best I can do is a simple code review and check out other packages.

While I work on that, could you tell me the following:

  1. What does the beacon package offer that flutter_beacon (https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_beacon) doesn't?
  2. Do you think the two can be merged into one package? At Flutter Community, we'd love for users to have only one package to import instead of make choices regarding similar packages. This also ensures that a single package is maintained well instead of two packages where one or both might be out of date from time to time.
  3. Can you send a video showing the application in action with a beacon?

Thank you for cooperation 😁

Best regards.

jeroen-meijer commented 5 years ago

Hi there,

One more thing, I found this package on pub, authored by the same company, flutter_beacons (https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_beacons). Do you know about this package, and if it can be merged, too? All three beacons packages are extremely similar, so we'd like them to be merged before we can make a decision on wether or not to include them in the Flutter Community GitHub.

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AndruByrne commented 4 years ago

@jeroen-meijer, I think they are looking for out-of-the-box background monitoring, which is the substantive delta between the two libraries' documentation. I see that background monitoring on flutter_beacons requires some unspecified "extra lines of code" so maybe its just a documentation problem.

AndruByrne commented 4 years ago

For those looking for good out-of-the-box background monitoring, do understand that BLE is a fairly hardware-specific API designed with certain uses in mind; it has a good bit of undefined space in it still (though the android beacon lib has helped a lot) https://developer.radiusnetworks.com/2013/11/13/ibeacon-monitoring-in-the-background-and-foreground.html