Android-App

Proof of Concept: Beacon and Personalized Notification/ Andriod-App with Demandware @ Brandeis University

####SDK Estimote SDK and com.savagelook.android

####Monitoring System After import the necessary library from Estimote in MyApplication.java, we can set up a BeaconManager Object as a static variable

public class MyApplication extends Application {

    protected static BeaconManager beaconManager;

...

Then in the onCreate() function we can set up our beaconManager and define a listener for entering the beacon region and exiting the beacon region:

public void onCreate() {
    super.onCreate();
    beaconManager = new BeaconManager(getApplicationContext());

    // set callback/listener
    beaconManager.setMonitoringListener(new BeaconManager.MonitoringListener() {
        @Override
        public void onEnteredRegion(Region region, List<Beacon> list) {
            Log.e("MyApplication", "be enter");
            start = System.currentTimeMillis();
            showNotification(
                    "Welcome!",
                    "Current on sale items are: ...");
        }
        @Override
        public void onExitedRegion(Region region) {
            elapsedTime = System.currentTimeMillis()-start;
            showNotification(
                    "Thank you for coming!",
                    "You shop "+elapsedTime/1000+" seconds!");
        }
    });
    
    ...

Notice that, in the onEnteredRegion() trigger function, I call a showNotification() helper function to show the notification and start a timer, which later is used in the onExitedRegion() trigger function to get the tottal elapsed time in the beacon region.

Once we have this setup, we can start monitorting but connecting to ServiceReadyCallback() in the same onCreate() function:

public void onCreate() {
  ...

  // start monitoring
  beaconManager.connect(new BeaconManager.ServiceReadyCallback() {
      @Override
      public void onServiceReady() {
          beaconManager.startMonitoring(new Region(
                  "monitored region",
                  UUID.fromString(getResources().getString(R.string.beacon_UUID)),
                  null, null));
      }
  });
}

Moreover, to custmoize your notification, you can create the following helper function with some customized configuration in MyApplication.java or a utility class you like:

public void showNotification(String title, String message) {
  Intent notifyIntent = new Intent(this, MainActivity.class);
  notifyIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP);
  PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivities(this, 0,
          new Intent[] { notifyIntent }, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

  Drawable myDrawable = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.dw);
  Bitmap anImage      = ((BitmapDrawable) myDrawable) != null ? ((BitmapDrawable) myDrawable).getBitmap() : null;

  Notification notification = new Notification.Builder(this)
          .setSmallIcon(R.mipmap.ic_launcher) // setup small icon show in the status bar
          .setLargeIcon(anImage)  // setup the notificaiton image shown
          .setContentTitle(title) // notification title
          .setContentText(message)  // notification message
          .setAutoCancel(true)
          .setContentIntent(pendingIntent)
          .build();
  notification.defaults |= Notification.DEFAULT_SOUND;
  NotificationManager notificationManager =
          (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
  notificationManager.notify(1, notification);
}

Ranging System

Ranging system is different than monitor as monitor is only interested in a single beacon, while ranging system is interested in all the beacons but sorted them in an array by signal strength.

Since the ranging system setup is very similar to the monitor system, we are not going to go over it in detail, but you can check out this get started guide.

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