5 Unique Features of iBeacon App Development

iBeacon is the name of Apple’s technology standard, which enables the mobile apps to listen signals from beacons from the physical world and react accordingly by sending hyper-contextual information. The platforms and infrastructure behind the tiny wireless sensors can be quite complex. Every latest technology demands time to explore the potential outcomes; the same happened with beacon. Today after some years, it came into the limelight and SME’s realized that ibeacon app must be developed to hit the bull’s eye in the competitive trending IT market and to give curve to the business by sending promotional offers to the users.

We at BLE mobile apps provide the professional experts who work on the iBeacon app development services and have a profound sound knowledge, infrastructure, method, and process involved in design, development and deployment of beacon apps. Even the most skilled and experienced app developer will run into challenges that are unique of creating beacon apps. 

Let’s zero down, what is the challenging and unique things that comes to the scenario while developing iBeacon apps.

• Permission to activate and location service: Beacon would only perform some action when user would enable the location services and app should also be aware that only few devices support beacons and the bluetooth feature must be turned on. It is always better to wait for the last minute to ask for the permission rather than blasting users before they have even tried the app.  This determines that there are different states of the app that must be checked before beacons can be used successfully. 
• Feature set:  Beacon technology enables the app to identify the distance of the user and the broadcasting beacon to link the data about real world context with the specific context of the user. Developers when develop ibeacon app, they need to carefully check which element would enhance user experience without affecting privacy.  Additionally, they must also consider the factor that can protect user’s privacy in-case if the beacon is not within the range.
• Triangulation and tracing: There cannot be two-way communication between iBeacon and any mobile app as they do not recognize the client’s device that receives their broadcasts. So, to do that, iBeacon can theoretically open a new, second channel for communication with the mobile device and transmit the same data back to the server using constant data connection. But, this functionality is not the part of the specification of iBeacon and drains the battery of your device. The easiest thing to do is to pretend it by creating the app that doesn’t work.  By mapping ibeacon app with the backend, it can redesign record to register the real time presence and then customize it.
• Variable Signals: iBeacon mobile app development deals with radio waves to transmit signals to the beacon and then it detects the beacon’s distance because radio waves bounce around the physical location and are affected by the presence of the users. Signal quality varies and affected by temperature, device power etc. which may vary from broadcast to broadcast. To be precise, app has to be designed to make choices based on the variable information received.
• Business rationale imperative: It is necessary to have business logic scripts because there is range of variables used in developing iBeacon app. For instance, the beacon enabled mobile app should be develop in a way that it collects data related to beacon like UUID, major number, minor number and location. When the app comes in contact with beacon, it would access the business logic script and get a complete list of all the users at that beacon. The script provides the filtered data for privacy but it may happen that updates at any event may or may not be recorded in real-time. To do this in a perfect manner, developers can use time based heuristics approach for guessing if the user is still present.

Conclusion

iBeacon mobile app development is leveraging in the market but developing iBeacon app is quite different from developing any other mobile app. We at BLEmobileapps can make the process easy by using the prebuilt tools and library extensions to accerlate the process of development. Connect with us today for developing the next iBeacon mobile app.