*USE CASE:* We want our device(not a mobile phone) to constantly broadcast a message that would enable a listening android app running on the background to display a notification to the user when said message is received on the user's phone.
For our prototype, we have used 2 android mobile devices as proof of concept. One mobile phone as subscriber and one mobile phone as publisher. As expected, this setup run without any problems. *THE PROBLEM:* In order to move to the next phase of our development, we need to move the code that is doing the message publishing into a program that would run on our non-mobile phone device. Our device can execute programs running on c, c++, java and python, so we are trying to find a way to code the google nearby messages publish api in one of the said languages. Is there a way to do this? *WHAT HAS BEEN DONE SO FAR:* We have found the google api client library linked below which have support for c, java and python: https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/ However, looking through the list of exposed apis and the sample codes provided, it doesn't seem like the google nearby api is included anywhere. The closest one is the proximity beacon api for java which neither does publish nor subscribe google nearby messages but instead only queries the status of registered eddystone beacons. *P.S.* We understand that this problem could be solved by purchasing actual physical eddystone beacons to do the message publishing but its an additional cost that we cant afford for now. We would like to know if its possible to do the message broadcasting without the use of said beacons for non android devices. Thank you :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/android-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/android-developers/b017f5b3-3c1a-41b8-8574-9cca0e9ad2bb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
