About some APIs I don't know when and why to use

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Hello, all.

I am a junior developer of iOS and iBeacon. I don't know when and why to use the following in my development.

ESTBeacon peripheral

ESTBeaconManager recentlyUsedUUIDs recentlyCachedBeacons

These are not demonstrated in the example demos. Hope that someone can help me.

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Hey there,

"peripheral" property is a reference to the underlying Core Bluetooth device. You won't need it in a vast majority of cases—in fact, if you don't have an idea how it could be useful to you, it probably isn't, so I wouldn't worry about it (:

"recentlyUsedUUIDs" and "recentlyCachedBeacons" are mostly for caching and performance purposes—again, nothing to usually concern yourself with at the early stages of building your app and/or experimenting with beacons.

All of these properties are documented here:
http://estimote.github.io/iOS-SDK/Classes/ESTBeacon.html