Features available on both Android and iOS
- Region Monitoring (or geo fencing), works in all app states.
- Advertising device as an iBeacon
Plugin available from https://github.com/petermetz/cordova-plugin-ibeacon
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var app = {
// Application Constructor
initialize: function() {
this.bindEvents();
},
// Bind Event Listeners
//
// Bind any events that are required on startup. Common events are:
// 'load', 'deviceready', 'offline', and 'online'.
bindEvents: function() {
document.addEventListener('deviceready', this.onDeviceReady, false);
},
// deviceready Event Handler
//
// The scope of 'this' is the event. In order to call the 'receivedEvent'
// function, we must explicitly call 'app.receivedEvent(...);'
onDeviceReady: function() {
app.receivedEvent('deviceready');
console.log('onDeviceReady');
app.startRanging('E5D72D63-DCD9-4C5F-B489-03D2DED37A92');
},
startMonitor: function(monitor_uuid) {
var logToDom = function (message) {
var e = document.createElement('label');
e.innerText = message;
var br = document.createElement('br');
var br2 = document.createElement('br');
document.body.appendChild(e);
document.body.appendChild(br);
document.body.appendChild(br2);
window.scrollTo(0, window.document.height);
};
var delegate = new cordova.plugins.locationManager.Delegate();
delegate.didDetermineStateForRegion = function (pluginResult) {
logToDom('[DOM] didDetermineStateForRegion: ' + JSON.stringify(pluginResult));
cordova.plugins.locationManager.appendToDeviceLog('[DOM] didDetermineStateForRegion: '
+ JSON.stringify(pluginResult));
};
delegate.didStartMonitoringForRegion = function (pluginResult) {
console.log('didStartMonitoringForRegion:', pluginResult);
logToDom('didStartMonitoringForRegion:' + JSON.stringify(pluginResult));
};
delegate.didRangeBeaconsInRegion = function (pluginResult) {
logToDom('[DOM] didRangeBeaconsInRegion: ' + JSON.stringify(pluginResult));
};
var uuid = monitor_uuid;
var identifier = 'beaconTest';
var minor = 87;
var major = 1;
var beaconRegion = new cordova.plugins.locationManager.BeaconRegion(identifier, uuid, major, minor);
cordova.plugins.locationManager.setDelegate(delegate);
// required in iOS 8+
cordova.plugins.locationManager.requestWhenInUseAuthorization();
// or cordova.plugins.locationManager.requestAlwaysAuthorization()
cordova.plugins.locationManager.startMonitoringForRegion(beaconRegion)
.fail(console.error)
.done();
},
startRanging : function(monitor_uuid){
var logToDom = function (message) {
var e = document.createElement('label');
e.innerText = message;
var br = document.createElement('br');
var br2 = document.createElement('br');
document.body.appendChild(e);
document.body.appendChild(br);
document.body.appendChild(br2);
window.scrollTo(0, window.document.height);
};
var delegate = new cordova.plugins.locationManager.Delegate();
delegate.didDetermineStateForRegion = function (pluginResult) {
logToDom('[DOM] didDetermineStateForRegion: ' + JSON.stringify(pluginResult));
cordova.plugins.locationManager.appendToDeviceLog('[DOM] didDetermineStateForRegion: '
+ JSON.stringify(pluginResult));
};
delegate.didStartMonitoringForRegion = function (pluginResult) {
console.log('didStartMonitoringForRegion:', pluginResult);
logToDom('didStartMonitoringForRegion:' + JSON.stringify(pluginResult));
};
delegate.didRangeBeaconsInRegion = function (pluginResult) {
logToDom('[DOM] didRangeBeaconsInRegion: ' + JSON.stringify(pluginResult));
};
var uuid = monitor_uuid;
var identifier = 'beaconTest';
var minor = 87;
var major = 1;
var beaconRegion = new cordova.plugins.locationManager.BeaconRegion(identifier, uuid, major, minor);
cordova.plugins.locationManager.setDelegate(delegate);
// required in iOS 8+
cordova.plugins.locationManager.requestWhenInUseAuthorization();
// or cordova.plugins.locationManager.requestAlwaysAuthorization()
cordova.plugins.locationManager.startRangingBeaconsInRegion(beaconRegion)
.fail(console.error)
.done();
},
// Update DOM on a Received Event
receivedEvent: function(id) {
console.log('Received Event: ' + id);
}
};
app.initialize();