About Beacon Simulator
This app transforms your Android device into a virtual BLE beacon advertiser and transmitter. You can create your own collection of beacon configurations and use them anytime, anywhere, to emulate a physical beacon.
Its purpose is essentially to help developers working on beacon software with more flexibility than with some real beacons.
Current features:
- Broadcast and advertise iBeacon, AltBeacon, Eddystone
- Eddystone support for: URL, UID, unencrypted TLM (telemetry), EID (Ephemeral ID)
- Create, edit, manage and save your beacon configurations
- Background broadcast
- Scan of nearby beacons, copy of their configuration
- Check tool to know how many broadcast is possible on your phone
- In English and French
Android limitations:
- the MAC address is automatically managed by Android, and will change for each new EID rotation
- not possible to broadcast several different frames with a same MAC address
- broadcast capability depends on your phone, you can use the check tool to know what is possible for you
Other limitations:
- TLM data are static in time
- Scan is not a main feature of the app for now, just an helper
Permissions are for:
- bluetooth: scan, broadcast using Bluetooth
- location: unfortunately, required by Android to perform a Bluetooth scan
- internet: for log collection in case of crashes and statistics about usage
Beacon Simulator 1.5.1 Update
1.5.1
Attempt to fix a random crash at broadcast start.
1.5.0
- removed crash analysis tool to comply with the developer distribution agreement
- update to newer compilation SDK so the app can be deployed on the store again
- replaced Google URL shortener by Bit.ly shortener, due to end of maintenance by Google.
Requires Android: Android 5.0+
Screen DPI: 160-640dpi
SHA1: 35a936735e16e45cc114d413c639cedfa839c499
Size: 1.39 MB
What's New:
1.5.1
Attempt to fix a random crash at broadcast start.
1.5.0
- removed crash analysis tool to comply with the developer distribution agreement
- update to newer compilation SDK so the app can be deployed on the store again
- replaced Google URL shortener by Bit.ly shortener, due to end of maintenance by Google.
Requires Android: Android 5.0+
Screen DPI: 160-640dpi
SHA1: 9fbb26461c60e725692c075030f393455193f7a4
Size: 1.47 MB
What's New:
Attempt to fix a random crash.
1.4.0
Added
- In settings menu, resilient mode for broadcast can be configured (restart a broadcast after a reboot or bluetooth is switched on)
Fixed
- Android forgets to remove some broadcasts when Bluetooth is switched off, until no more broadcast can be done
- Flickering problems while updating beacon lists
- When modifying a non broadcasting beacon while another beacon is broadcasting, the beacon is triggered on
- Various fixes
Requires Android: Android 5.0+
Screen DPI: 160-640dpi
SHA1: 89f950c2cc731b9f9a0252844f0d21335a60fefe
Size: 1.45 MB
What's New:
Added
- In settings menu, resilient mode for broadcast can be configured (restart a broadcast after a reboot or bluetooth is switched on)
Fixed
- Android forgets to remove some broadcasts when Bluetooth is switched off, until no more broadcast can be done
- Flickering problems while updating beacon lists
- When modifying a non broadcasting beacon while another beacon is broadcasting, the beacon is triggered on
- Various fixes
Requires Android: Android 5.0+
Screen DPI: 160-640dpi
SHA1: 27abaedb525d110e637bfcd3ffabfad76b4fbdad
Size: 1.37 MB
What's New:
Added
- Support for unencrypted Eddystone TLM frames
- Support for encrypted Eddystone EID frames
- Stop brodcast button in action bar
- Drawer menu
- Possibility to choose language
- Possible to keep screen on while scanning
- Analysis to find maximal number of broadcastable beacons
- URL shortener for Eddystone URL
Fixed
- Crash on some badly formed scanned Eddystone beacons
- Random crash depending on Bluetooth state when stopping broadcast
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Update Date:
2019-03-23
Latest Version:
1.5.1
Need Update:
Available on:
Requirements:
Android 5.0+
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