nRF Beacon 1.4.3
Free Version
Publisher Description
The nRF Beacon application lets you explore the full range of possibilities for beacons using Bluetooth Low Energy technology. The application has been designed to demonstrate all features of the nRF8122 Bluetooth LE Beacon Kit. It works partially with beacons from other manufacturers as well.
The application allows you register actions that will be triggered when specified event occur. Currently a beacon may silent the phone, open an application, open a website in a browser, show predefined information about an object (Mona Lisa painting) or play an alarm on one of the 4 events: beacon region has been entered or exited, a beacon is near or very close.
On Android 4.3 and 4.4.x the application requires nRF Beacon Service application to be installed on the device. It may be downloaded from Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=no.nordicsemi.android.beacon.service.
Since Android 5 (Lollipop) the service is build into the application and is using native API. The nRF Beacon Service application may be removed from the phone.
Note:
- Supported on Android version 4.3 or later.
- Tested on Samsung S3 with Android 4.3 and on Samsung S4, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 with Android 4.4.2, 4.4.4 and 5.
- Compatible with nRF51822 Bluetooth® Smart Beacon Kit
- You may find more information about nRF51822 Bluetooth LE Beacon Kit on our website: http://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Products/Bluetooth-R-low-energy/nRF51822-Bluetooth-Smart-Beacon-Kit
- The source code of nRF Beacon is available on GitHub: https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/Android-nRF-Beacon
- Various phones has different antennas thou may get other signal strength readings from the beacons.
About nRF Beacon
nRF Beacon is a free app for Android published in the System Maintenance list of apps, part of System Utilities.
The company that develops nRF Beacon is Nordic Semiconductor ASA. The latest version released by its developer is 1.4.3.
To install nRF Beacon on your Android device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2016-06-20 and was downloaded 4 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the nRF Beacon as malware as malware if the download link to no.nordicsemi.android.nrfbeacon is broken.
How to install nRF Beacon on your Android device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to Google Play.
- Once the nRF Beacon is shown in the Google Play listing of your Android device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the Install button located below the search bar and to the right of the app icon.
- A pop-up window with the permissions required by nRF Beacon will be shown. Click on Accept to continue the process.
- nRF Beacon will be downloaded onto your device, displaying a progress. Once the download completes, the installation will start and you'll get a notification after the installation is finished.
