Chapter 3. Broadcasting Advertisements – Sending Offers
In the previous chapter, we used the companion beacon app and learned how to react when we come into the range of beacons. We built the Matey's offers app to show offers around the store. In this chapter, we're going to look at the other side and we're going to become Matey's by actually using our iOS device to broadcast offers.
Introducing the Core Bluetooth framework
Let's start with a new framework that makes broadcasting possible: Core Bluetooth. In this chapter, we'll still be using the Core Location framework but only to configure our transmitter. This chapter is all about the technology behind beacons.
The Core Bluetooth framework provides the classes needed for your iOS and Mac apps ...
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