I'm not a software developer, but after seeing BeaconFence in action I'd like to learn.   My background is design, business and marketing, and amazingly BeaconFence embodies each of these areas. There is a real design element to creating a map and layout of a floor plan and then seeing it in scale in your IDE. Defining the ultimate beacon locations to create zones and paths is pure design zen. Through BeaconFence I can see incredible opportunity for a ...

RAD Studio XE8 gives developers the application platform with the tools they need to extend existing VCL Windows or FireMonkey apps to mobile, wearables, and IoT solutions. These solutions are powered by distributed, connected apps that are deployed across Windows, Android, iOS, OS X, wearables, like Smart Watches, IoT devices like Beacons, middleware, enterprise backends, and cloud hosted services. We will be exhibiting RAD Studio XE8 support for Beacons, wearables and other IoT devices and ga...

Beacons, iBeacons, altBeacons... Beaconing is probably the hottest new technology among programmers. Today I had a pleasure to present the latest Appmethod to developers at the IT DroidCon conference in Turin in Italy. Building natively compiled apps from the same codebase for Android, iOS, Windows and Mac with reusable components is always fun. Probably the most fun I had was with using the new "TBeacon" component for building proximity aware mobile apps. How could it be simpler? Beaconing is t...

RAD Studio XE8 provides you with the tools to rapidly design, build, and deploy connected apps that deliver innovative IoT solutions. The new Beacon component makes it easy to add proximity awareness to your applications. Two beacon formats are available: iBeacon and AltBeacon. iBeacon is a format defined by Apple. When working with iBeacons, select the Standard Mode available for the TBeacon component.  AltBeacon is an open format, known as Alternative beacon. The full sp...