I have a beacon that is transmitting Eddystone - URL. I can locate my beacon using the Physical Web app in Android. I read that from Chrome 49 Physical web is by default supported by chrome but I'm using Chrome 69 version but I didn't get any nearby notification. In short my questions are,
Does Chrome by default support physical web? and if it does should I have to open the chrome app to get my notifications displayed?
Do people need to have any specific app to get nearby notifications?
You must actively turn on Physical Web in Chrome for Android's privacy settings as described here.
These notifications can also be delivered by Nearby, which requires Google Play Services, but no other apps on the phone. Most Android devices outside of China have Google Play Services installed, but those in China as well as Amazon Fire tablets and some other devices do not, and will not receive these notifications. The link above also describes how users must opt-in to Nearby notifications. If they do not opt-in, they will not get the notifications.
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I am working on Google Assistant integration for Smart Devices.
Apart from Tablets and Cell phones, I want to control smart home devices via Android TVs. I looked at the Google Docs (https://developers.google.com/assistant/smarthome/overview), I had no difficulties with Google Local Home SDK, OAuth 2 installation.
But there is this;
In the link https://www.android.com/tv/, "control home devices" tab and;
At https://assistant.google.com/platforms/tv/ there is a "control smart home" tab.
In other words, the control of smart devices can be done from Android TVs.
But; It says on the https://developers.google.com/assistant/smarthome/overview page that all smart home integration processes will start through the Google Home application. At least, even if this application is not installed, the first process can start from the add device tab in the google assistant settings.
But I couldn't find a google home app for Android TV on google play.
When I say "turn off the lights" to my TV, it says "no such device, open assistant settings". There are assistant settings. But not like cell phones. None of the android tvs have an assistant settings with "add device" option.
So then;
https://www.android.com/tv/
https://assistant.google.com/platforms/tv/
as shown in the links; With which integration can we control smart home devices? As shown in these links; How can they control devices at home using google assistant with Android TVs?
Anyone know?
Thanks.
Currently the Google Home App is available only on the phone. In your use case a user needs Google Home App on the phone to set up a device and then Google Assistant on Android TV can control the device. Keep in mind that to have the same google account on the phone and the android TV for this flow to work.
Google has discontinued Near By API by the end of 2018. Android OS had built in support for Near by API and hence without a custom APP , the device was able to capture the beacon based push notifications.My requirement is as follows:
With Digital loyalty pass on Google wallet, when the end customer enters the vicinity of a beacon , the device should receive offers as push notification. There is no custom app developed . With out a custom app , how to receive the push notifications with just the Digital loyalty pass on google wallet? . Please help with a solution.
Please refer https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/10/discontinuing-support-for-android.html
Unfortunately after Google Nearby was discontinued, there is no longer a solution to send notifications to a user on BLE detection without a third party app installed to do so.
The only workaround is to develop a third party app to do the detecting and notifying. Keep in mind that the way Google implemented this was with the Google Play Services app, so an app was still required to send the notifications. (It was just an app that was installed by default on most phones sold outside of mainland China.). And it didn't even work unless a user had opted in, something that few ever did.
Google's Nearby discontinuation basically says Google is no longer willing to use their app to send notifications for you. So you must use your own app or the app of a different partner.
There are other third party apps that track a user's location and send notifications -- such apps are often popular "free" games. But while the install base of these apps can be in the hundreds of millions they do not approach the install base of Google Play Services. These apps can also be a bit "shady" about their practices, and to my knowledge do not have a public policy about how you can get them to send notifications for you or let users opt-in or opt-out.
I want to push notification to users when in my beacon's proximity. That's pretty easy if I register my beacon on Google Beacon Platform using Proximity Beacon API and then register Nearby Notification against it. I do not want to register the beacon on Google Beacon Platform and still throw a notification to user through Nearby Notification API.
If you want to Google Nearby to be triggered by a beacon, you have no choice but to register the beacon with the Google Beacon Platform. That's how it works. Nearby is a system that relies on server-side configuration to send messages to a user.
That said, it is possible to send regular Android notifications to a user when they come across your beacon without registering with the Google Beacon Platform. To do this, you must have your own custom app installed on the user's phone.
You can see an example of how to do this with the Android Beacon Library in the "Getting Notified When Beacons Appear in the Area" section of this page. A more sophisticated example that scans in the background and sends a notification to the lock screen on beacon detection is in the library's reference app.
I plan on implementing Google App Invites on our iOS and Android app. What I have not been able to figure out yet is will an iOS user be able to invite an Android user and vice versa - and is there a way to have the invite recognize which device the recipient is using and send to the correct store?
You can send invites cross platform between Android and iOS, even have a mixture among recipients in a single invite.
For app invites to find the correct cross platform app to install the mapping must be defined in the developers console (console.developers.google.com) by putting them in the same project.
When sending an invite from an Android app the link that is generated and sent in the invite is a link to the play store. So currently, I'm guessing Android users can only invite Android users.
The link generated from an iOS app is to a webpage, so theoretically it's possible to identify the OS via user agent and send to the correct store. Currently that does not happen though, the page redirects to iTunes when opened on Android as well.
So, it seems that currently you can only send an invite to the store corresponding to your OS, i.e. Android users can only send an invite to the play store and iOS users to the app store.
is possible to send parameters to my Google TV app from the mobile remote control app ( http://code.google.com/p/google-tv-remote/ ) to open my Google TV application and take these parameters?
The Google TV Remote app implements the Anymote protocol which has a fling message to send intents (with extra data) to a Google TV device: https://developers.google.com/tv/remote/docs/#flingevents