Beacons in Windows 10

Question

Is there any way to use ibeacons with Windows 10 development? Since ibeacons development with previous versions of Windows seemed nearly impossible, will we have the oportunity

Answer 1

Microsoft has previously indicated it would support application-controlled scanning for Bluetooth LE devices in Windows 10. This is the fundamental capability that is missing from Windows 8.x for both Mobile and desktop. See here for more info: https://stackoverflow.com/a/26234432/1461050

So far, the published preview APIs for Windows 10 have not exposed this functionality. If and when it is exposed, these APIs should be possible to build a library to detect Bluetooth LE beacons.

EDIT:This capability is now available in the new BluetoothLeAdvertisementWatcher class. In anticipation of this capability, we have started work on an open source Windows Beacon Library which will ultimately be designed for use on Windows 10. This work is only in its infancy. For now, it can only be used on Windows 8.x devices in conjunction with add-on Bluetooth scanning dongles that can pass their scan results to the library for parsing.

If you are interested in helping in this effort, please send a note through the GitHub project linked above.