nRF Beacon Service

Battery efficient beacons scanner for Android 4.3 and 4.4.

The nRF Beacon Service allows other applications to themselves for beacon region monitoring and ranging. The service is deprecated since Android 5 as the new native Bluetooth Scanner API may be used to efficiently scan for beacons in background mode.

If region ed, the application scan periodically for BLE activity and notifies the ing application about entering and exiting region and ranging. The service may also notify about entering a region when target application is in the background. Background monitoring may be disabled in application options.

The application has been designed to scan for beacons using as less battery as possible. It scans only if any application has ed at least one region. ive scanning is performed every 15 seconds and lasts 1 second. No significant battery consumption has been ed.

The nRF Beacon Service application is compatible with nRF51822 Bluetooth Smart Beacon Kit which may be found here: http://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Products/Bluetooth-R-low-energy/nRF51822-Bluetooth-Smart-Beacon-Kit. The new nRF Beacon application (1.2+) no longer require this service on Android 5+.