ANDROID QUICK START
IBEACONS TECHNOLOGY
1

Create

your developper account

Go to the Beaconwatcher Manager and create an account.
Sign up

2

Create

your Android Application

The following steps will set up an application in Eclipse ready for enabling Beaconwatcher features.

3

Confirm

your environment

4

Create

a new Eclipse project

In Eclipse choose File > New > Project and search for “Android Application Project” as seen below.

Fill out your “Application Name”, “Project Name”, and “Package Name” fields.

Important: Make sure the “Minimum Required SDK”, “Target SDK” are set to at least API 18 and “Compile With” fields are set to API 18: Android 4.3. Then click through the rest of the “New Android Application” setup wizard.

5

Add SDK Jar

to your project

Click to download: BeaconW-SDK.1.0.jar

Note: You will find the jar at above link

Add jar to your Android application by copy and pasting it into the libs folder of your android project.

Your project should now look similar to this:

  1. Add the follwoing sdk and permission declarations to your AndroidManifest.xml 
    <uses-sdk
        android:minSdkVersion="18"
        android:targetSdkVersion="18" />

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"  />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH_ADMIN" />
  2. Edit your project.properties file and add the line:Â manifestmerger.enabled=true
  3. Only perform this step if you are using a version prior to 0.7.1 or if you do not have manifest merging enabled per step 2. If manifest merging does not work, you must manually add the following service declarations to your AnroidManifest.xml, replacing {my app’s package name} with the fully qualified package name of your Android application. 
    <service
       android:enabled="true"
       android:exported="true"
       android:isolatedProcess="false"
       android:label="iBeacon"
       android:name="com.radiusnetworks.ibeacon.service.IBeaconService">
</service>

<service
       android:enabled="true"
       android:exported="true"
       android:isolatedProcess="false"
       android:name="com.radiusnetworks.ibeacon.IBeaconIntentProcessor">
       <meta-data android:name="background" android:value="true" />
       <intent-filter  android:priority="1" >
            <action android:name="com.radiusnetwork.demo.DID_RANGING" />
            <action android:name="com.radiusnetwork.demo.DID_MONITORING" />
       </intent-filter>
</service>