Receive notification from beacon region detection during background monitoring - ibeacon

Question

I am trying to create a basic app in which I create a regionBootstrap for background monitoring of various types of beacons, just like in the reference app.
However, instead of bringing the app to the foreground upon entering a beacon region, I would like to simply display a 'You have entered a beacon region' local notification.
I presume this would need to be coded in the onCreate method within the 'extends Application implements BootStrapNotifier' class. But I also see that the intent for starting the main activity is instantiated within the didEnterRegion method, so is this in fact where I'd need to code the notification?

Answer 1

The easiest way to trigger a background notification is to make a custom Application class that implements BootstrapNotifier. You then put the notification code in the didEnterRegion callback method like so:
#Override
public void didEnterRegion(Region arg0) {
NotificationCompat.Builder builder =
new NotificationCompat.Builder(this)
.setContentTitle("Beacon Reference Application")
.setContentText("A beacon is nearby.")
.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_launcher);
TaskStackBuilder stackBuilder = TaskStackBuilder.create(this);
stackBuilder.addNextIntent(new Intent(this, MonitoringActivity.class));
PendingIntent resultPendingIntent =
stackBuilder.getPendingIntent(
0,
PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT
);
builder.setContentIntent(resultPendingIntent);
NotificationManager notificationManager =
(NotificationManager) this.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
notificationManager.notify(1, builder.build());
}
You can see a full example of this in the reference application for the Android Beacon Library.