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What is core Bluetooth?
Core Bluetooth is an iOS Framework provided by Apple to build Bluetooth Low Energy applications that communicate with hardware gadgets.
What is iBeacons in iOS?
iBeacon is Apple’s implementation of Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) wireless technology to create a different way of providing location-based information and services to iPhones and other iOS devices.
How do I find location with iBeacon?
The easiest way to get an exact location is to put one iBeacons at each point you care about, then have an iBeacon-aware app compare the “accuracy” field (which actually gives you a rough distance estimate i meters), and assume the user is at the iBeacon point with the lowest “accuracy” reading.
What are the services and support provided by Core Bluetooth framework?
Overview. The Core Bluetooth framework provides the classes needed for your apps to communicate with Bluetooth-equipped low energy (LE) and Basic Rate / Enhanced Data Rate (BR/EDR) wireless technology. Core Bluetooth background execution modes aren’t supported in iPad apps running on macOS.
What is core Bluetooth in Swift?
The Core Bluetooth framework lets your iOS and Mac apps communicate with Bluetooth low energy devices. For example, your app can discover, explore, and interact with low energy peripheral devices, such as heart rate monitors, digital thermostats, and even other iOS devices.
What is Ibeacons Swift?
iBeacon technology consist of a revolutionary way to keep track of the position of a device indoors and use location services, similarly to the GPS outdoors, and it’s based on the signal transmitted through Bluetooth (Bluetooth Low Energy specifically, or BLE) by beacon devices.
Where are iBeacons used?
iBeacon can also be used with an application as an indoor positioning system, which helps smartphones determine their approximate location or context. With the help of an iBeacon, a smartphone’s software can approximately find its relative location to an iBeacon in a store.
Can iBeacons work android?
iBeacon is a Bluetooth communication protocol introduced by Apple in 2013. Since iBeacon was developed by Apple you may think that it only works with Apple devices but this is not true – iBeacon works on Android devices as well.