Have you ever waited at the carousel for your baggage? Wouldn't it cool if your baggage can notify you when it arrives! How many times have you lost your remote? Wouldn't be awesome if you can locate your remote easily. All of these things and more are possible by using iBeacons. In this session Mohammad Azam will discuss practical scenarios of using iBeacons in real life. Azam will demonstrate the tour guide app he implemented for his company. This session involves live coding as well as slides. So, sit back and enjoy!

1. iBeacons in Real Life
Mohammad Azam

2. Me
• Senior Mobile Developer at Blinds.com
• Creator of iOSScreencast
• Author, speaker and wannabe explorer!
• azamsharp@gmail.com
• @azamsharp, @iosscreencast
• www.azamsharp.com
• www.highoncoding.com

4. apps

5. Introduction to Swift
Mohammad Azam
ABC POP

6. Mohammad Azam
Kinder Pop

7. Mohammad Azam
Mathemachicken

8. Mohammad Azam
HEX APP

9. Introduction to Swift
Mohammad Azam
Daily 5

10. Introduction to Swift
Mohammad Azam
Vegetable Tree
Featured on the App Store

11. iOSScreencast

12. Agenda
• Understanding iBeacons
• Arrived - Track your stuff
• Museum Tour App
• Dude where is my remote!

13. iBeacons?

17. So iBeacon is just a glorified name for GPS!

18. iBeacon vs GPS

19. Signal

20. iBeacons
Estimote Particle Kontakt

21. Estimote Sticker Beacons

22. iPhones!

23. Mac

24. Mac + Dongle

25. Testing Device

26. Real Life Uses

27. Implementation

28. CLLocationManagerDelegate

29. Methods

30. Authorization

31. Start ranging and monitoring

32. Background Monitoring
• iOS 7.1 added the ability to wake your app from
background when it encounters monitored beacons.

33. Demo

34. iBeacon Distance
• Accuracy
• Power
• RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indication)

35. Finding All Beacons Around Me!
• You can using low level Bluetooth API’s but does
not recommend it and you app will be rejected
• UUID
• MajorId
• MinorId

36. Resources
• Learning iBeacon by Craig Gilchrist
• RayWenderlich
• iOSScreencast (62, 63 and 64)
• https://github.com/timd/MactsAsBeacon
• Arrived (https://github.com/azamsharp/Arrived)

37. Contact
• azamsharp@gmail.com
• @azamsharp
• www.azamsharp.com
• www.iosscreencast.com

38. Thanks!