Estimote IndoorLocation works on Marshmallow but not Pixel 2 or the S9

[programmingnatp]

Prerequisites

• [x ] Put an X between the brackets on this line if you have done all of the following:
  • My beacons have Estimote Location packet enabled (Check it in the Estimote Cloud, or via app)
  • My Android device/devices supports BLE and has Android OS version >= 5.0.0
  • My Android device/devices have bluetooth enabled
  • My app has Location Permissions granted

Basic information

Estimote SDK version: [Paste here the SDK version that you are using (like 0.1.0-alpha.6)] 'com.estimote:indoorsdk:2.5.3'
'com.estimote:sdk:1.0.12'

Android devices affected:
Pixel 2
Samsung S9 Plus

Android OS version affected: [Android OS version (ex. Oreo 8.0.0)]
Pie (Pixel 2)
Oreo (S9)

Beacon hardware version:
F3.3

Description

Using the sample code (described https://developer.estimote.com/indoor/android-tutorial/), the app worked as expected on Android Lollipop and Marshmallow. However, on phones with Android Oreo and Pie, it seems that the OnPositionUpdateListener always calls hidePosition().

Steps to reproduce:

1. Follow the tutorial and create an apk
2. Test the APK on the devices
3. Run the app

Expected behavior:
An avatar that represents the user moves around in between the displayed beacon as the user moves around in real life.

Actual behavior:
The beacons are displayed, but the avatar is hidden as onPositionOutsideLocation is constantly called on the OnPositionUpdateListener. However, this only appears to be happening on our newer devices.

(Optional)

I am not sure if this is an operating system issue, but I suspect it may be related as the same exact apk works on the older phone models and not the newer ones.

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[BVerschaete]

Same issue on OnePlus 6 and 6T with android Oreo.

[BVerschaete]

@programmingnatp I was in contact with Estimote and they told me to add the following dependency to my build.gradle:

implementation 'com.estimote:scanning-plugin:0.24.0'

this is a newer version of the scanning plugin that hasn't been updated yet in the indoor SDK, this newer dependency will overwrite the one from the indoor SDK, this solved my issue