iBeacon and Notification - ios

Question

i'm developing an iOS application and i'm using beacons.
I've a problem. I'm at the beginning of the development, so I only have my appdelegate. In appdelegate.m I have initialized like so
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];
// Override point for customization after application launch.
self.locationManager = [[CLLocationManager alloc] init];
self.locationManager.delegate = self;
NSUUID *uuid = [[NSUUID alloc] initWithUUIDString:#"8AEFB031-6C32-486F-825B-E26FA193487D"];
CLBeaconRegion *region = [[CLBeaconRegion alloc] initWithProximityUUID:uuid
identifier:#"Region"];
if ([CLLocationManager isMonitoringAvailableForClass:[CLBeaconRegion class]])
{
NSLog(#"I'm looking for a beacon");
[self.locationManager startRangingBeaconsInRegion:region];
} else {
NSLog(#"Device doesn't support beacons ranging");
}
return YES;
}
and then I wrote two delegate methods
- (void) locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didExitRegion:(CLRegion *)region {
NSLog(#"EXIT");
}
- (void) locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didEnterRegion:(CLRegion *)region {
NSLog(#"ENTER");
}
but they never get called!!! What's the problem here?

Answer 1

you RANGE but you never MONITOR the regions.
Ranging for beacons will only call: locationManager:didRangeBeacons:inRegion:
The methods enterRegion/exitRegion you want are for monitoring only. So call:
- (void)startMonitoringForRegion:(CLRegion *)region

Answer 2

I don't know why there are not calling but this is how we can handle beacons...
- (void)createBeaconRegion
{
self.locationManager = [[CLLocationManager alloc] init];
self.locationManager.delegate = self;
NSUUID *uuid = [[NSUUID alloc] initWithUUIDString:#"8AEFB031-6C32-486F-825B-E26FA193487D"];
CLBeaconRegion *region = [[CLBeaconRegion alloc] initWithProximityUUID:uuid
identifier:#"Region"];
if ([CLLocationManager isMonitoringAvailableForClass:[CLBeaconRegion class]])
{
NSLog(#"I'm looking for a beacon");
[self.locationManager startRangingBeaconsInRegion:region];
} else {
NSLog(#"Device doesn't support beacons ranging");
}
}
- (void)turnOnRanging
{
NSLog(#"Turning on ranging...");
if (![CLLocationManager isRangingAvailable]) {
NSLog(#"Couldn't turn on ranging: Ranging is not available.");
self.rangingSwitch.on = NO;
return;
}
if (self.locationManager.rangedRegions.count > 0) {
NSLog(#"Didn't turn on ranging: Ranging already on.");
return;
}
[self createBeaconRegion];
[self.locationManager startRangingBeaconsInRegion:self.beaconRegion];
NSLog(#"Ranging turned on for region: %#.", self.beaconRegion);
}
- (void)startRangingForBeacons
{
self.locationManager = [[CLLocationManager alloc] init];
self.locationManager.delegate = self;
self.detectedBeacons = [NSArray array];
[self turnOnRanging];
}
- (void)stopRangingForBeacons
{
if (self.locationManager.rangedRegions.count == 0) {
NSLog(#"Didn't turn off ranging: Ranging already off.");
return;
}
[self.locationManager stopRangingBeaconsInRegion:self.beaconRegion];
NSLog(#"Turned off ranging.");
}
You can refer the entire sample project using below link
https://github.com/nicktoumpelis/HiBeacons
That uses to display Beacons..
Hope it helps you....!