Beacons and Delphi in Amsterdam
It is the second day of CodeRage XI today! CodeRage is Embarcadero's annual online developer conference and I'm kicking off the Day 2 with my presentation about "Beacons and Delphi in Amsterdam".
During the session I'm going to demonstrate how to build mobile apps with Delphi and C++Builder that are using beacons for accurate location information. I'm also going to show practical examples of using Delphi with Amsterdam Open Beacon Network and Amsterdam Open Data integration.
Here are the slides from CodeRage XI Beacon Delphi and C++Builder sessions today. Enjoy! Beacons and Delphi in Amsterdam.pdf
The session is divided into four parts:
- What are beacons?
- What is a beacon
- Beacon
- Bluetooth Low Energy Beacon
- Bluetooth LE
- List of Bluetooth profiles
- GATT Profile
- Bluetooth Adopted Specifications
- Bluetooth Proximity Profile (PXP)
- Understanding the different types of BLE Beacons
- Extensive Guide to Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Beacons
- iBeacon versus Eddystone Overview
- iBeacon
- Alt Beacon
- Eddystone format
- Beacon manufacturers
- The Hitchhikers Guide to iBeacon Hardware
- Using beacons in RAD Studio
- IoT in Amsterdam
- Beacons and Delphi in Amsterdam
Comments
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Thursday, 17 November 2016Hello Pawel,
Great post!
I love beacons! and I am creating a beacon app for Shop and Museum.
Have you experience to listen the beacons in the background ?
seems that it's impossible with RAD Studio
thanks!
Antonello -
Thursday, 17 November 2016Hi Antonello,
On iOS, you can add a special info.plist entry in order to receive Bluetooth and CoreLocation (Beacon) events:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/NetworkingInternetWeb/Conceptual/CoreBluetooth_concepts/CoreBluetoothBackgroundProcessingForIOSApps/PerformingTasksWhileYourAppIsInTheBackground.html
You can use UIBackgroundModes for CoreLocation (beacons).
Please see http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Berlin/en/Version_Info#OS_X_and_iOS_Version_Info
Regards,
Sarina -
Friday, 18 November 2016
Hi Sarina,
thanks for reply.
but when I modify the UIBackgroundModes, the info.plist is changed or I have to change it manually?
I know in old version of RAD there was a bug of info.plist.
is there a example of this feature/method ?
Regards,
Antonello -
Tuesday, 22 November 2016Hi Antonello,
The trick is deploy info.plist manually using Deployment Manager. Otherwise the IDE will override your manual changes every time you build your app.
Please let me know if it helps,
best regards,
Paweł -
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Hello Pawel! Thx for your speech yesterday!
Will you post link to the webinar replay for your speech when released?