News: Developer

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Oct
2018

4.0 SDK NEW VERSION FOR HEROW

To accompany the official release of Herow, the Connecthings mobile team is proud to announce the official release of the 4.0 version SDK! Here are the main change logs: New geofence detection module to detect the virtual geofence zone created on Herow. The Beacon detection module is still operational. New algorithms to manage the location […]

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15

Jun
2017

HOW TO USE THE NEW CORENFC API (IOS 11)

As you may have already seen, Apple’s WWDC 2017 brought its share of surprises, one of them being the new Core NFC API (for more information, we invite you to read our latest article here). This short tutorial will take you through how to develop an iOS application that is able to read NFC tags. Managing […]

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08

Jun
2017

APPLE OPENS UP NFC API ON IOS 11!

Apple’s WWDC 2017 started last Monday, with the announcement of many exciting news and new features. One in particular caught our attention: the release of the new Core NFC API on iOS 11! Until now, iPhones 5S and above had integrated the technology, but only Apple Pay was able to use it. Now, any iOS application will be able […]

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01

Jun
2017

NEARBY NOTIFICATIONS VS THE PHYSICAL WEB

In the same year, Google launched two technologies that seem very similar: Nearby notifications the Physical web Both technologies allow to generate beacon notifications on mobile phones, without needing to integrate an SDK in an application. Both notifications consist of a title, an icon, and a URL. So, what are the differences? Openness Nearby Notifications […]

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16

May
2017

THE GOOGLE NEARBY APP

Nearby is a recent application developed by Google, which unifies the Nearby Notification and Physical Web experiences, both types of notifications being identical for end users. As such, the Nearby app now replaces Google Chrome as the preferred solution to detect Physical Web URLs on Android. Nearby is part of the Google Services package, which is now installed on a very large number of devices. […]

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