magnet-scanner-android

Discover URLs around you.

Supports:

• Bluetooth Low Energy: Discovering both Eddystone and UriBeacon beacons.
• mDNS: URLs advertised via this protocol.
• geolocation: Nearby URLs found in the magnet-service.

Usage

Drop the library into your dependencies, and start using it like:

Scanner scanner = new Scanner(getApplicationContext());
  .useBle()
  .useMdns()
  .useGeolocation()
  .addListener(new MagnetScannerListener() {
    @Override
    public void onItemFound(MagnetScannerItem item) { ... }

    @Override
    public void onItemLost(MagnetScannerItem item) { ... };
  });

scanner.start();

// ... later

scanner.stop();
scanner.removeListener(this);

Background Scanning

scanner.startBackgroundScanning();

// ... later

scanner.stopBackgroundScanning();

AndroidManifest.xml

<receiver android:name=".MyReceiver">
  <intent-filter>
    <action android:name="org.mozilla.magnet.scanner.ITEMS_FOUND" />
  </intent-filter>
</receiver>

MyReceiver.java

ArrayList items = (ArrayList) intent.getSerializableExtra("items");