isAdvertising() always return false in Android?

[kctang]

Based on what I read, advertising beacon is supported on Android (Lollipop and up).

However, this call seems to always return false.

cordova-plugin-ibeacon/src/android/LocationManager.java

Line 1168 in 270ffbb

PluginResult result = new PluginResult(PluginResult.Status.OK, false);

Note: I am looking into the Android source because cannot get the advertised beacon on Android device detected. Advertising seems to be succesful.

Logcat output:

V/Capacitor/Plugin: To native (Cordova plugin): callbackId: LocationManager257369777, service: LocationManager, action: isAdvertising, actionArgs: []
I/BeaconTransmitter: Advertisement start succeeded.
W/com.unarin.beacon: startAdvertising start succeeded.

I am still in the midst of figuring this out. Any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks!

[kodeine]

Can you share the code to start advertisement? for me it always says false also await this.ibeacon.isAdvertising(), is coming as false as well even though i started advertising

[kctang]

I start advertising with this:

await this.ibeacon.startAdvertising(this.ibeacon.BeaconRegion('myBeacon', '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000', 10, 10, true))

The promise completes successfully (i.e. the logcat output in my first post).

However, calling isAdvertising() after startAdvertising() returns false.

    const checkB = await this.ibeacon.isAdvertising()
    this.log(`isAdvertising is ${checkB}`)

I believe the cordova plugin will call the LocationManager.java code snippet I highlighted above - which always returns false.

I suspect isAdvertising() does not really reflect if advertising has started on Android as it always return false.

[oscarviq]

Having this same issue in an Ionic Application, checking .isAdvertising() always returns false

Also even though .startAdvertising() does not bring up any errors the delegate events for .peripheralManagerDidStartAdvertising() are never triggered