Android Altbeacon Library BeaconSimulator on release version of application

Question

i want to ask if there is a way to use BeaconSimulator to simulate iBeacon on release version of my application. I am displaying content based on iBeacon that user sees and i want to show information about my application and for example that user needs to turn on Bluetooth etc.

I want to have some kind of iBeacon always visible (also when BT is turned of) to instruct user. Is there some way to achieve this ?

Thanks

Regards

Juraj

Answer 1

The Android Beacon Library's BeaconSimulator is automatically disabled for release builds of applications. This is intended as a safety check, to keep from accidentally releasing code with the simulator active if you forget to disable it in code.

This safety check is based on the ApplicationInfo.FLAG_DEBUGGABLE, which automatically gets set to false by Gradle when doing a release build. If you really want to allow the simulator to run in a release build, you can try setting the debuggable flag to true for release builds in your build.gradle file like this:

android {
    ...
    buildTypes {
        release {
            debuggable true
        }
}