Bug Fix Release

Bug Fixes:

• Provide access to monitored regions after restoring state
• Don't start or stop scans if bluetooth state is off to prevent crashes on HTC devices
• Protect against SecurityException crashes caused by Samsung Knox
• No Monitoring information after killing an application built with the minify mode
• Start and stop BLE scans from a background thread to prevent blocking the UI

Access restored monitor regions

This is a prerelease intended to test accessing monitored regions after state restoration upon app restart.

HTC Crashes Fix Attempt

Attempts to fix HTC crashes by refusing to start scans if bluetooth is off

Android N debug release

Adds debug lines to troubleshoot BLE scanning on Android N Devices

Android N Scan Updates

Bug Fixes:

• Fixes spurious entry/exit events on Android N caused by OS imposed limits of 5 scans every 30 seconds.

Multiple notifiers, region persistence improvements

New Features:

• Multiple ranging and monitoring notifiers are supported via BeaconManger#addRangeNotifier(RangeNotifier notifier) and BeaconManger#addMonitorNotifier(MonitorNotifier notifier)
• App bootstrap regions by be dynamically changed with newRegionBootstrap#removeRegion(Region region) and RegionBootstrap#addRegion(Region region) methods.
• Improved region state behavior by adding BeaconManager#requestStateForRegion(Region) and BeaconManager#setRegionStatePeristenceEnabled(boolean)
• Added a guaranteed callback to MonitorNotifier#didDetermineStateForRegion(int state, Region region) when starting monitoring. At app startup, this returns the previously known persisted state.
• Custom distance calculation for Moto X 2nd gen XT1092
• More flexible support for combining multi-frame beacons with Beacon#getExtraDataFields()

Bug Fixes:

• Eddystone frame detection on Google's Android BeaconTools and Chrome fixed by adding missing service UUID PDU.
• Beacon data fields of over four bytes are now be parsed correctly.
• Region persistence app freezes resolved by limiting persisted regions to 50
• Fixed inability to starting monitoring for a different Region definition with the same uniqueId

Allow 4.x scanning without location permissions

Bug Fixes:

• As of the 2.8 release, scanning would never start on Android 4.x devices unless the application manually added ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION or ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION permissions to the AndroidManifest.xml. This fix makes it so this is not required for 4.x devices, as was the case prior to 2.8.

Eddystone-EID Support

New Features:

• Adds support for detecting, resolving and broadcasting Eddystone-EID

Retain monitoring configuration on service restart, identify beacon parsers

New Features:

• Retains monitored regions across service restarts, preventing apps from getting multiple region entry callbacks each time the service restarts.
• Add string identifier to BeaconParser which can be referenced by decoded Beacon object, allowing easy determination of beacon type.
• Switch to using ELAPSED_REALTIME clocks, so scanning doesn't stop on devices without a battery-backed RTC
• Add ability to access raw EDDYSTONE_TLM data for sending info to Google services.
• New distance formula for Moto X Pro

Bug Fixes:

• Multiple consumers of the BeaconService will now each get a onBeaconServiceConnected() callback.
• Don't scan for bluetooth devices if permission has not been granted in Android 6. This prevents large number of exceptions in the log.

Retain monitoring configuration on service restart, identify beacon parsers

New Features:

• Retains monitored regions across service restarts, preventing apps from getting multiple region entry callbacks each time the service restarts.
• Add string identifier to BeaconParser which can be referenced by decoded Beacon object, allowing easy determination of beacon type.
• Switch to using ELAPSED_REALTIME clocks, so scanning doesn't stop on devices without a battery-backed RTC
• Add ability to access raw EDDYSTONE_TLM data for sending info to Google services.
• New distance formula for Moto X Pro

Bug Fixes:

• Multiple consumers of the BeaconService will now each get a onBeaconServiceConnected() callback.
• Don't scan for bluetooth devices if permission has not been granted in Android 6. This prevents large number of exceptions in the log.