Com.estimote.sdk instead of com.estimote.coresdk

BLE Beacons
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I’m just started experimenting with Beacons and Android apps, I installed Estimote SDK by adding “compile ‘com.estimote:sdk:1.0.3@aar’” to the dependencies of my build.gradle file but I get only com.estimote.coresdk.* and the com.estimote.mgmtsdk., and not the com.estimote.sdk., which I suppose is the fully-fledged SDK.

Where am I wrong? How do I get the full SDK? (I have an Estimote Cloud account with -for now- a single Estimote assigned)

P.S. i am using jcenter as repository. When i checked there the 1.0.3 was the last version, actually if I try a “compile ‘com.estimote:sdk:1.0.11’” I get a “Fail to resolve: com.estimote:sdk:1.0.11”.

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Hi @bzznrc,

did you try to use the
compile 'com.estimote:sdk:1.0.9'
or
compile 'com.estimote:sdk:1.0.10'
lines?
I get no error using the first one.

Also, it seems that the com.estimote.sdk.* does no longer exist: JavaDoc. So if you have the coresdk and mgmtsdk packages it’s good.

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Thanks for the reply!
even “compile ‘com.estimote:sdk:1.0.9’” gives me the same error, but I tried the update because I thought the .coresdk was somehow an old package (yeah, I didnt’t check the JavaDoc…).

So, since the official tutorial still uses the old .sdk package, is there a monitoring/ranging code example that uses the new packages?

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Try that for ranging, and say if it works:

Monitoring is quite the same.

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It works! Thanks for the code!

I understand that if I set the UUID, major and minor to null I can search for every single beacon, that was what I was trying to do!

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Yes, you have to put all to null.

Notes:

  • you can’t range for a Secure Region with a null UUID,
  • if you want to range on iOS, you have to put a non-null UUID, in both Secure & non-Secure region.
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Just another question: I currently have 4 Location Beacons and 1 Proximity Beacon. My ranging app finds all the 4 Location Beacons but fails to detect the Proximity one. Does it not support ranging detection or are there other problems?

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Read more about this issue, maybe you could find if it is related, but it doesn’t seems…