iBeacon ranging in the background?

Question

I have started to test out iBeacons using estimotes as beacons.

It\'s all running pretty good, but i\'m struggling with getting the app to run properly in the backgr

Answer 1

You are mistaken. You don't need to call startUpdatingLocation in order to be called in the background.

When you're in the background it takes longer to get notified when you enter a region. If you want ranging calls, you have to issue the startRangingBeaconsInRegion call as well. As the other poster pointed out, you will only get a few seconds of ranging calls from the background when a new beacon is detected. (You get a didEnterRegion, followed by a few ranging calls, and then your app goes back to sleep.)