A lightening talk on how to use iBeacons for Mobile C# devices. This talk was given at the May 2014 Queensland Mobile C# Developers Meetup.

1. WORKING WITH IBEACONS
Glenn Stephens

2. WHAT IS A BEACON?
• Proximity Detection Device
• Using for close interaction
detection

3. WHAT CANYOU DO WITH
THEM?
• Location Centric Applications
• Prize Hunts
• Informational Booth Style Apps
• Anything where location is a factor.
e.g. Cafe ordering from the table
• Airport checkin
• Signon for services

4. WHAT CAN I USE AS A
BEACON?
• Variety of Devices
• Raspberry Pi
• Apple
• Any device that supports Bluetooth 4 LE

5. TREASURE HUNT
• Need a volunteer to use one of the beacon apps
• Time to find the monkey
• Rewarded with a real monkey

6. PLATFORM
USAGE
iOS using the Find the
Monkey app
!
Code Walkthrough

7. FOR IOS
• Geofencing
• Region Monitoring when your app is running in the
background
• Proximity Detection
• When the application is running in the foreground
• Lets look at the Beacon tool to see proximity

8. FOR IOS
• Use the LocationManager with iOS7 extensions and use the beacon functionality
• Look at
• http://www.knowing.net/index.php/2013/09/19/my-favorite-ios-7-apis-part-1-
ibeacons-and-multipeer-connectivity/
• http://blog.xamarin.com/play-find-the-monkey-with-ios-7-ibeacons/
• https://github.com/mikebluestein/FindTheMonkey
• https://github.com/xamarin/monotouch-samples/tree/master/AirLocate
• http://www.knowing.net/index.php/2013/09/19/xamarin-code-for-ibeacons/

9. PLATFORM
USAGE
Android using the Xamarin
Component by Chris Riesgo
!
Example project using the
same find the monkey
!

10. PLATFORM
USAGE
Android using Google Glass
demo. Only arrived yesterday

11. ANDROID DETAILS
• Links
• https://github.com/chrisriesgo/FindTheMonkey-Android
• http://blog.xamarin.com/use-ibeacons-in-android-with-c/
• Google Glassing it up
• http://blog.xamarin.com/ibeacons-and-google-glass/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTtBnUl_2-g
• https://github.com/chrisntr/FindTheMonkey-GoogleGlass

12. WINDOWS PHONE
• Windows Phone 8.1 is the first to add BT4 LE
support
• Should (hopefully) see some availability of iBeacon
support soon
• Not quite there yet, but soon according to the
Microsoft members that attended the meet up

13. THANKS
• Glenn Stephens @glenntstephens