Android Device: Connecting to iBeacon

Question

This is a general query that I have because I have seen contrasting posts about the ways people have implemented it.
My use case is that I want my Android device to connect to iBeacon whenever it is in range, and start a particular app. How do I go about it? I am not looking for code, in particular, a general direction of how to go about it would be good.

Answer 1

Here's what you can do:

• You can program an app to auto-launch itself when a beacon is detected. If this app is already installed on an Android device, it can send a notification or simply appear when the beacon is seen. The free and open source Android Beacon Library has tools that let you do this. See here

Here's what you cannot do:

• If you do not have a custom app installed on a phone, then you can not make the phone do anything to respond to a beacon. Once upon a time, it was possible on many phones with Google Play Services to make a beacon detection prompt a user to install your app. Google, however, discontinued this feature of their Nearby service in December 2018.