isReady() never ever return true!!! - please help

[olli3]

GA 7.4.1 Tiapp.xml updated as per docs

Ti.API.info('isReady - '+Alloy.Globals.TiBeacons.isReady());

never ever returns true 1

please help

Ti.Android.requestPermissions([ 'android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION' ], (e) => {
if (e.success) {

                // wait for beacons library to be ready
                let handle = setInterval(() => {

                        Ti.API.info('isReady - '+Alloy.Globals.TiBeacons.isReady());

                    if(!Alloy.Globals.TiBeacons.isReady()) return;
                    clearInterval(handle);
                    handle = null;

                    // listen for beacon proximity events
                    Alloy.Globals.TiBeacons.addEventListener('beaconProximity', (e) => {
                        const identifier = e.source.identifier,
                              uuid = e.source.uuid,
                              power = e.source.power;

                        Ti.API.info(`identifier: ${identifier}, uuid: ${uuid}, power: ${power}`);
                    });

                    // monitor for our specific beacons
                    Alloy.Globals.TiBeacons.startMonitoringForRegion({
                        identifier: 'iBeacon',
                        uuid: '1ED323F5-E1CB-6B4C-2418-B8D760237BDE'
                    });
                    Alloy.Globals.TiBeacons.startMonitoringForRegion({
                        identifier: 'iBeacon',
                        uuid: 'B9407F30-F5F8-466E-AFF9-25556B57FE6D'
                    });

                }, 1000);
            } else {
                Ti.API.error(e.error);
            }

[roelandp]

@olli3

I was also stumbling upon this, tried a couple of things but then gave up as the module seemed to not give any data out, not even errors or something when I tried to debug in android-monitor.

Not to disrespect this module or @jamesfalkner at all, but just to help, here is what I did to get Beacons working on latest Ti 8.0.1 --> (just finished this 'whitsundays debugging session'):

Hence replaced the 'liferay-android-beacons' with an 'altbeacon version' from https://github.com/Sensimity/android-altbeacon-module/ (original by: com.drtech.altbeacon)

git cloned that one and basically vanilla rebuilt the module with my current 8.0.1.GA. appc run -p android --build-only Ti Cli then asked:

Detected Titanium 8.0.1 that requires API-level 4, but the module currently only supports 6.0.0.GA and API-level 3.
Do you want to migrate your module now? (yes|no) [yes]: yes

and all worked flawlessly after that on device right now.

Worked out of the box following the samples given, and from the Sensity github I even found a commit, which has a "servicebound" event, so don't need to use the "setInterval" to monitor whether iBeaconService has become available.

I was not aware, but now I am, that AltBeacon supports multiple "beaconLayouts" and therefore also the Apple's iBeacon format, (as you can see in the Altbeacon Layout) example: AltbeaconModule.addBeaconLayout("m:2-3=0215,i:4-19,i:20-21,i:22-23,p:24-24"); (which is the layout format for apple ibeacon 👍 )

ok, hope it works for you too.

[olli3]

sounds great...

Worked out of the box following the samples given, and from the Sensity github I even found a commit, which has a "servicebound" event, so don't need to use the "setInterval" to monitor whether iBeaconService has become available.

1. do i need to add this too ?
2. does this module require location -> always or would while in app work ?

i cloned the module, then rebuild as you said 👍

then took the module from the dist/com.drtech.altbeacon-android-3.0.0.zip
unzipped this and dragged to usual place.

included in tiapp.xml

then ran the app, crashes on load...

-- Start application log -----------------------------------------------------
[INFO] TiApplication: (main) [0,0] checkpoint, app created.
[WARN] W/ : Unable to open '/system/framework/WfdCommon.jar': No such file or directory
[WARN] art: Failed to open zip archive '/system/framework/WfdCommon.jar': I/O Error
[WARN] W/ : Unable to open '/system/framework/com.qti.location.sdk.jar': No such file or directory
[WARN] art: Failed to open zip archive '/system/framework/com.qti.location.sdk.jar': I/O Error
[INFO] MultiDex: VM with version 2.1.0 has multidex support
[INFO] MultiDex: Installing application
[INFO] MultiDex: VM has multidex support, MultiDex support library is disabled.
[INFO] art: Starting a blocking GC HeapTrim

any chance you could share your built module ?

[roelandp]

i have the module here -->
roelandp/catchall@0d33448

what android are you running on? Did you appc ti clean to clean your dir prior to building & deploying? Maybe you are missing some NDK shizzle idk.

Let me know if you have success with my module! I'm running (and building) on 8.0.1.GA fyi.

[olli3]

do you have an email address i can ping you on ?

[jamesfalkner]

@roelandp Thanks for the info on altbeacon! I haven't had time to maintain this project for several years, and am surprised it still even compiles :) (I designed it for a previous job in which I am no longer in, and an app which no longer exists!).