android-beacon-library VS Bluetooth Helper

Compare android-beacon-library vs Bluetooth Helper and see what are their differences.

android-beacon-library

Allows Android apps to interact with BLE beacons (by AltBeacon)

Bluetooth Helper

Android Bluetooth Helper Library, Bluetooth Device Finder (by tlgbltcn)
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android-beacon-library Bluetooth Helper
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2,813 49
0.4% -
7.3 0.0
13 days ago over 2 years ago
Java Kotlin
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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android-beacon-library

Posts with mentions or reviews of android-beacon-library. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-03.
  • Starting with Bluetooth BLE
    2 projects | /r/androiddev | 3 Mar 2023
    This project: https://github.com/AltBeacon/android-beacon-library is maintained and
  • What is the BLE Eddystone Beacon?
    1 project | /r/androiddev | 13 Nov 2022
    Okay so a beacon is a device that emits a low power signal based on the concept of Bluetooth Low Energy. Google released a standard for these beacons called Eddystone which specifies the data format etc. Android SDK doesn't have built in support for beacons, it's more of an Apple thing, but you can check this library: https://github.com/AltBeacon/android-beacon-library

Bluetooth Helper

Posts with mentions or reviews of Bluetooth Helper. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Bluetooth Helper yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing android-beacon-library and Bluetooth Helper you can also consider the following projects:

Blueteeth - A simple, lightweight library intended to take away some of the cruft and tediousness of using the Android BLE.

Android-BluetoothSPPLibrary - [UNMAINTAINED][Android] Bluetooth Serial Port Profile which comfortable to developer application to communication with microcontroller via bluetooth

aliucord-plugins - 🧩 My collection of Aliucord plugins for mobile Discord, a modified client for Discord on Android with plugin support

AndroidSmoothBluetooth - Smooth communication via bluetooth with other android devices or microcontrollers such as Arduino.

Bluetooth LE Library for Android - This library allows for easy access to a Bluetooth LE device's AdRecord and RSSI value. It offers additional functionality for iBeacons.

AndrOBD - Android OBD diagnostics with any ELM327 adapter

RxCentralBle - A reactive, interface-driven central role Bluetooth LE library for Android