Is background monitoring possible with Eddystone?

BLE Beacons
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Hi, the Android SDK offers Eddystone scanning but, is this suitable for continuous background scanning? is there something similar to monitornig that works with Eddystone?

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Hi @ivanc,
While we do not have the same APIs for monitoring as for normal beacons, BeaconManager is suitable for continues background scanning.

1/ You need to hold reference to BeaconManager inside your Application class and not activity.
2/ Set scanning periods via BeaconManager#setForegroundScanningPeriods(5000 for scan time, 30000 for wait time).

We are working on generalised “filter” concept for background scanning with all different packet types.