[Solved] Can flutter_beacon package be used to make Social Distancing app in Flutter?

Question

In order for two phones to detect each other with BLE beaconing you need them to do two things:

Advertise a beacon over BLE
Scan for beacons over BLE

But flutter_beacon only does item 2 above. For item 1, you need another package. Try beacon_broadcast:

https://pub.dev/packages/beacon_broadcast

You need to do both at once.

If you use these, you can build a social distancing app on Android and iOS, but it will only work on iOS in the foreground as beaconing stops in the background on that platform.

Accepted Answer

In order for two phones to detect each other with BLE beaconing you need them to do two things:

Advertise a beacon over BLE
Scan for beacons over BLE

But flutter_beacon only does item 2 above. For item 1, you need another package. Try beacon_broadcast:

https://pub.dev/packages/beacon_broadcast

You need to do both at once.

If you use these, you can build a social distancing app on Android and iOS, but it will only work on iOS in the foreground as beaconing stops in the background on that platform.