Beacon

[khin_sin_c_]

Hi All,

 I have an app built in cordova, which i plan to provide a beacon solution. I wonder is the xdk ready to support the beacon solution? if yes, any beacon vendor or sdk i could refer to?

thanks

[Chris_P_Intel]

You mean iBeacon?

There is a third party iBeacon Cordova plugin: https://github.com/petermetz/cordova-plugin-ibeacon

You should be able to use it with the XDK with no problem.  I haven't worked with that plugin myself, nor iBeacon, so cannot advise you as to its ease or difficulty.

Hope this helps,

Chris

[khin_sin_c_]

Hi All,

found article about type of beacon technologies in the market:

https://developer.mbed.org/blog/entry/BLE-Beacons-URIBeacon-AltBeacons-iBeacon/

look like if using the cross platform development for marketing message purposes, UriBeacon is better?

http://www.gpsbusinessnews.com/Google-s-UriBeacon-More-Disruptive-than-iBeacon_a5306.html

thanks

[khin_sin_c_]

Hi Chris,

i try to monitor an ibeacon using the plugin with id: com.unarin.cordova.beacon.

When i try to do below in my code:

var delegate = new cordova.plugins.locationManager.Delegate();

there is always an error of "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'locationManager' of undefined" show in the log. May i know how could i make a refer to locationManager on the cordova plugin?

thanks

Regards,

Chan KS

[PaulF_IntelCorp]

This looks to me like you do not have the plugin included as part of your app. Are you trying to do this from the Emulate tab? Third-party plugins won't work from there. See these doc pages:

• https://software.intel.com/en-us/xdk/docs/intel-xdk-introduction
• https://software.intel.com/en-us/xdk/docs/intel-xdk-debug-and-test-overview