Xamarin, iBeacons and Geofencing – Some Resources

For an upcoming geekend (a weekend hackfest) we are looking at spending some time digging into iBeacon and Geofencing technologies.  I was going to email some of these resources I have found to the participants but thought it might be better if I blog them as a resource for others. 

Hope it helps

Some General Info About Geofencing and Beacons

• What’s the difference between beacons and geofencing? (video link). 
• There is also an interesting prezi presentation here, bit sales oriented, but not bad. 
• If you need even more convincing that location and geofencing are the future then have a read of this old Wired article. 

Geofencing Implementations

• Xamarin iOS Geofence documentation 
• Windows Phone 8.1 for Developers – Geolocation and Geofencing 
• Trigger a Background Task using Geofence on Windows Phone 8.1 
• Android Geofencing and Geolocation – Xamrin Forum link

Beacons, iBeacons and BLE Implementations

• James Montemagno’s presentation on iBeacons for Everyone, from iOS to Android 
• Mike Bluestein blog post (and sample app) – Play ‘Find The Monkey’ with iOS 7 iBeacons 
• Larry O’Briens blog post on Xamairn Code for iBeacons 
• iBeacon Generic – A Generic Monotouch.iOS binding for beacons.
• Very thorough article by Vincent Hoogendoorn – Building Cross-Platform iBeacon Apps for iOS, Android and Windows with C# and Xamarin 
• Chris Riesgo Android iBeacon Service (Radius Network beacons) 
• Greg Shackles Estimote iOS Bindings for Xamarin
  
  
• Tom Opgenorth has an Estimote SDK binding for Android in the Xamarin Component store. 
• Xamarin-EstimoteBeacons on GitHub