iBeacon mobile web application development

Question

Are there any custom APIs for iBeacon access from mobile web applications? Probably it could be a mobile safari extension.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, no.

You could write a native iOS app that looks for iBeacons in the background and launches a specific web app URL on mobile Safari. You could even pass ranged beacon info in query parameters.

But you would still need a native app installed on the phone to do this. And once the Safari page is launched, getting further updates is impossible, unless you use a complex web service proxy to the native app.