Cant get any notifications

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Hello, I cant get any notifications. Neither in foreground nor in background mode. Im new to iOS and Objective-C. I've been googling around for last few days. Your demo app works but very slowly, you have to wait like 20-30 seconds to get a notification. But its still ok for my purposes. I tryed to edit the code but seems like nothing works. I would like to know how to make following things:
-App launches and opens browser, its a Web-App(done). And at the same time starts scanning for all beacons(Help needed by that).
-Once iBeacon or more iBeacons is found (and this should be done in foreground and also in background modes), app sends MySQL request to the server. Checks wether beacon/s UUID/s is in Database. If it is, app sends an AJAX request to the server, to load a HTML content in browser.** For now I would like just to send a LocalNotification to the user when a beacon is found.

No notifications for now needed if iPhone loses connection with beacon, only when finds, connects.

Sofar I've done this but I get no notifications at all, nothing happens, I can just see white background:

"ViewController.h" :
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import "ESTBeacon.h"

@interface ViewController : UIViewController

  • (id)initWithBeacon:(ESTBeacon *)beacon;

@end

"ViewController.m" :
#import "ViewController.h"
#import "ESTBeaconManager.h"

@interface ViewController () <ESTBeaconManagerDelegate>

@property (nonatomic, strong) ESTBeacon *beacon;
@property (nonatomic, strong) ESTBeaconManager *beaconManager;
@property (nonatomic, strong) ESTBeaconRegion *beaconRegion;

@end

@implementation ViewController

  • (id)initWithBeacon:(ESTBeacon *)beacon
    {
    self = [super init];
    if (self)
    {
    self.beacon = beacon;
    }
    return self;
    }

  • (void)viewDidLoad
    {
    [super viewDidLoad];

    self.beaconRegion = [[ESTBeaconRegion alloc] initWithProximityUUID:ESTIMOTEPROXIMITYUUID
    major:[self.beacon.major unsignedIntValue]
    minor:[self.beacon.minor unsignedIntValue]
    identifier:@"RegionIdentifier"];
    self.beaconRegion.notifyEntryStateOnDisplay = YES;
    self.beaconRegion.notifyOnEntry = YES;
    self.beaconRegion.notifyOnExit = YES;

    [self configureReceiver];

}

-(void)configureReceiver
{
self.beaconManager = [[ESTBeaconManager alloc] init];
self.beaconManager.delegate = self;
[self.beaconManager startMonitoringForRegion:self.beaconRegion];
[self.beaconManager startRangingBeaconsInRegion:self.beaconRegion];
}

  • (void)beaconManager:(ESTBeaconManager *)manager didEnterRegion:(ESTBeaconRegion *)region
    {
    UILocalNotification *notification = [UILocalNotification new];
    notification.alertBody = @"Enter region notification";
    notification.soundName = UILocalNotificationDefaultSoundName;
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] presentLocalNotificationNow:notification];
    }

  • (void)beaconManager:(ESTBeaconManager *)manager didExitRegion:(ESTBeaconRegion *)region
    {
    UILocalNotification *notification = [UILocalNotification new];
    notification.alertBody = @"Exit region notification";
    notification.soundName = UILocalNotificationDefaultSoundName;
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] presentLocalNotificationNow:notification];
    }

@end

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Hi Aleksandras,

We have the notifications explained in our API documentation. Please take a look here to check out the code: http://estimote.com/api/tutorials/proximity.html

Cheers.

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First of all 20-30s delays to get notification is common due to Apple's iBeacon implementation.

I didn't get it from your questions. Did you manage to run our examples in SDK?

https://github.com/Estimote/iOS-SDK/tree/master/Examples