I am starting my app development using Xamarin and BLE technology.
What I want end of the day is able to use iOS and Android as beacon device to transmit and receive signals from app. And then when in near or proximity, app should detect that.
I searched and found key things are: 1. IOS: IBeacon, inbuilt in OS 2. Android: 2.a Altbeacon 2.b Estimote 2.c Eddystone
my questions are: 1. Any app or sample where using C# i can achieve BLE transmitter and receiver 2. Which SDK i should use in android to achieve the same?
Thanks.
You can use the iBeacon format on both Android and iOS. The other formats work equally well on Android, but iBeacon has much faster and more reliable detections on iOS.
With Xamarin, you can use this project to bind to the Android Beacon Library:
https://github.com/chrisriesgo/Android-AltBeacon-Library