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Sushmitha Balesh
Sushmitha Balesh

Reputation: 1

Can we detect ibeacons through android phones without explicitly turning on the bluetooth or location?

How can we detect ibeacons from a android phone without explicitly switching on the bluetooth or location...? I want to design an app which detects for the beacon even when the bluetooth is off...please suggest the answer

Upvotes: 0

Views: 213

Answers (1)

davidgyoung
davidgyoung

Reputation: 64941

Sorry, this is not possible. Bluetooth must be turned on to detect t beacons as it requires using the Bluetooth radio to do a scan.

With BLUETOOTH_ADMIN permission (required for scanning anyway), it is possible to detect if bluetooth is off, then turn it on long enough to do a scan, then turn it back off again. The user will see the Bluetooth icon when this happens, and the user will be told at install time that the app requires this permission.

Upvotes: 1

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